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:
persimmons

Origin of Persimmon

  • 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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