Persimmon

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various chiefly tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, having hard wood and orange-red fruit that is edible only when completely ripe.
  • n. The fruit of any of these trees.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature.
  • n. The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of several species of the genus Dsipyros; primarily, D. Virginiana of North America, the date-plum, a tree common in the South, growing to a height of 60 feet.
  • n. The fruit of any of the above-named trees.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros
  • n. orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    berry   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ironwood    mango    guava    nectarine    mulberry   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.