| 单词 | japanese persimmon | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasJapanese persimmon  a.  The tree  Diospyros virginiana (family  Ebenaceae) of the southern United States, which produces the persimmon fruit (more fully  American persimmon). Also (more fully  Japanese persimmon): the related tree  D. kaki, a native of China and Japan which is increasingly grown elsewhere for its fruit; also called kaki.Mexican persimmon: see Mexican persimmon n. at Mexican n. and adj. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > 			[noun]		 > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > persimmon-tree persimmon1626 persimmon tree1649 Mexican persimmon1846 Sharon fruit1977 1626    in  Amer. Speech 15 294/2  				Extending Southerly..towards the pursimond ponds. 1635    Relation of Maryland 18  				Also there are divers sorts of Fruit-trees, as Mulberries, Persimmons, with severall other kinds of Plums. 1709    J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 102  				Persimmon is a Tree, that agrees with all Lands and Soils. 1788    Chambers's Cycl. 		(new ed.)	  				Plum, Indian date, pishamin, persimon, or pitchumon, diospyros,..a genus of the polygamia dioecia class. 1834    G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. ii. 58  				The Indians..brought..loaves, made of the fruit of the persimmon. 1882    Garden 7 Jan. 1/2  				There are..fruiting Japan Persimmons, American Persimmons. 1936    W. Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! vi. 214  				The old street of the slave quarters—a jungle of sumach and persimmon. 1969    S. G. Harrison  et al.  Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 104/2  				This species [Diospyros virginiana] is often used in America as a rootstock on which to graft the Japanese persimmon. 2001    J. Robinson Voices of Queensland ii. 41  				The tree Diospyros digyna, a tropical relative of the persimmon. < as lemmas | 
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