noun
medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe
• Syn: ↑American persimmon, ↑possumwood
• Hypernyms: ↑persimmon, ↑persimmon tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Diospyros, ↑genus Diospyros
• Part Meronyms: ↑persimmon
Useful english dictionary. 2012.