Persimmon Definition
pər-sĭmən
persimmons
noun
persimmons
Any of a genus (Diospyros) of trees of the ebony family with white, cup-shaped flowers, hard wood, and yellow or orange-red, plumlike fruit.
Webster's New World
The fruit, sour and astringent when green, but sweet and edible when thoroughly ripe.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- persimmon tree
Other Word Forms of Persimmon
Noun
Singular:
persimmon
Plural:
persimmonsOrigin of Persimmon
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From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit"), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-min- (“fruit, berry") as Unami ximin.
From Wiktionary
Of Virginia Algonquian origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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