persimmon
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Alternative forms
- putchamin [17th–18th c.]
Etymology
From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
Noun
persimmon (plural persimmons)
- A type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature.
- Synonyms: date plum, kaki, Sharon fruit
- 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 94:
- I warned them not to eat the persimmons until they were soft to the touch.
- The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).
Derived terms
- Chinese persimmon
- huckleberry above a persimmon
- huckleberry above one's persimmon
- Japanese persimmon
- kaki persimmon
- knock the persimmon
- Oriental persimmon
- the longest pole knocks the persimmon
Translations
fruit
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tree
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Further reading
persimmon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Diospyros on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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