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☆ per·sim·mon (pər sim′ən)

noun

  1. 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
  2. the fruit, sour and astringent when green, but sweet and edible when thoroughly ripe

Etymology: Virginia Algonquian pessemins, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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