Meaning

2 senses
  1. The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.

    orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe

  2. The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).

    Persimonenbaum, Persimone, Kaki

    хурма́xurmá, хурма́xurmá

    хурма́xurmá, персимо́наpersymóna

Examples

20 sentences
  1. Tom and Mary both like persimmons.

    Тому та Мері обом подобається хурма. — deniko

    deTom und Maria essen beide gerne Kakifrüchte. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. How often do you eat persimmons?

    deWie oft isst du Dattelpflaumen? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Many of my neighbors have persimmon trees.

  4. When was the last time you ate a persimmon?

  5. When was the last time that you ate a persimmon?

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
fruit:
Русский
By meaning 1
tree:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
tree:
fruit:

Origin

From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), for the first element, comp

From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), for the first element, compare Proto-Algonquian *paᐧʔsamwa (“dry”). The second element is from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin.

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Forms

plural: persimmons
Singularpersimmon
Pluralpersimmons

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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