Japanese persimmon

English

Noun

Japanese persimmon (plural Japanese persimmons)

A kaki or Japanese persimmon fruit, whole and halved

The tree Diospyros kaki and its red or yellow edible fruit, which outwardly resembles a tomato, but contains a few large seeds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Japanese persimmon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Synonyms

(Diospyros kaki): Chinese persimmon, kaki, kaki persimmon, Oriental persimmon

References

Japanese persimmon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Diospyros kaki on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Diospyros kaki on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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