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The definition of a persimmon is a tree in the ebony family, or the fruit of such a tree.

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An example of a persimmon is a Fuyu.

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noun

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
the fruit, sour and astringent when green, but sweet and edible when thoroughly ripe

Origin: Virginia Algonquian pessemins, etc.

See persimmon in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Any of various chiefly tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, having hard wood and orange-red fruit that is edible only when completely ripe.
The fruit of any of these trees.

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Origin: Of Virginia Algonquian origin

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