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persimmon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Persimmon \Per*sim"mon\, n. [Virginia Indian.] (Bot.) An American tree ( Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious.
Japanese persimmon, Diospyros Kaki and its red or yellow edible fruit, which outwardly resembles a tomato, but contains a few large seeds.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Powhatan (Algonquian) pasimenan "fruit dried artificially," from pasimeneu "he dries fruit," containing proto-Algonquian */-min-/ "fruit, berry."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature. 2 The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: (taxlink Diospyros kaki species noshow=1) (Asian) or (taxlink Diospyros virginiana species noshow=1) (North American).
WordNet
n. any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros [syn: persimmon tree]
orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe
Wikipedia
The persimmon (sometimes spelled persimon) is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros. Diospyros is in the family Ebenaceae. The most widely cultivated species is the Oriental or Japanese persimmon, Diospyros kaki. In color, the ripe fruit of the cultivated strains range from light yellow-orange to dark red-orange depending on the species and variety. They similarly vary in size from in diameter, and in shape the varieties may be spherical, acorn-, or pumpkin-shaped. The calyx generally remains attached to the fruit after harvesting, but becomes easy to remove once the fruit is ripe. The ripe fruit has a high glucose content. The protein content is low, but it has a balanced protein profile. Persimmon fruits have been put to various medicinal and chemical uses.
Like the tomato, persimmons are not popularly considered to be berries, but in terms of botanical morphology, the fruit is in fact a berry.
Persimmon (1893–1908) was a British Thoroughbred race horse and sire. In a racing career that lasted from June 1895 to July 1897 he ran nine times and won seven races. His victories included 1896 Epsom Derby, one of the first horse races ever filmed, by Robert W. Paul. His other important victories included the St. Leger, the Ascot Gold Cup and the Eclipse Stakes. He was also notable for his rivalry with another English colt St. Frusquin, who inflicted his only two defeats.
A persimmon is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees.
Persimmon can also refer to:
- Persimmon, the color of the fruit:
- Persimmon plc, a British housebuilding company
- Persimmon (horse), a Thoroughbred race horse who won the Epsom Derby in 1896
- Persimmon (testing framework), a Computation-Expression based unit testing framework via F#
Usage examples of "persimmon".
Across the Persimmon Sea the tribes of the Retent sullenly sat in their camps nursing grievances and planning murders, raids and tortures for the future, though without any great zest.
Miss Cow do but march up to the persimmon tree and stick her horn back in the hole?
But, bless your soul, honey, while she was cropping the grass, she took one mouth full too many, because when she hitched on to the persimmon tree again, Brer Rabbit was sitting in the fence corner a-watching of her.
He went off a little ways from the house and climbed a persimmon stump and got up there and began to holler.
But, bless your soul, honey, while she was cropping the grass, she took one mouth full too many, because when she hitch on to the persimmon tree again, Brer Rabbit was sitting in the fence corner a watching of her.
South across the Persimmon Sea lay the long narrow island Szintarre and its pleasant capital Olanje, a fashionable resort for out-worlders.
Now and then he heard the thump and roll of an unripe persimmon as it dropped on the thin roof over his head.
The item that had brought her to her bedroom in the first place was the phoenix persimmon and three small cuttings.
Fei scanned the room, sighing in relief when she saw the phoenix persimmon plant at its spot near the window.
She barely had time to set down the persimmon before she was enfolded in his arms.
She gently took the persimmon plant away from the scissors, then turned to speak calmly and rationally to Sandy.
She started moving for the door, the persimmon plant clutched to her chest.
Xiao Fei felt it: the phoenix persimmon flowing into her blood and energy.
Hideyoshi gave the command to his generals as though he were pointing at a persimmon on a branch.
Her name was Persimmon Gaunt, and she stumbled in the purple sunset across the tundra, her breath streaming behind as she gasped late autumn air.