PERSIMMON meaning: Sweet, orange fruit, autumn ripening

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word persimmon:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

persimmon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
persimmon: Merriam-Webster
persimmon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
persimmon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
persimmon: Collins English Dictionary
persimmon: Vocabulary.com
Persimmon, persimmon: Wordnik
persimmon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
persimmon: Wiktionary
persimmon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
persimmon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
persimmon: Infoplease Dictionary
persimmon: Dictionary.com
persimmon: Online Etymology Dictionary
Persimmon (disambiguation), Persimmon (fruit), Persimmon (horse), Persimmon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Persimmon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
persimmon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
persimmon: Rhymezone
Persimmon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
persimmon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
PERSIMMON: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
persimmon: FreeDictionary.org
persimmon: Mnemonic Dictionary
persimmon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)

persimmon: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

persimmon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

persimmon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

persimmon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
persimmon: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

persimmon: Golfer's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: A type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature.
▸ noun: The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).

Opposite:

quince

Types:

Fuyu, Hachiya, Sharon fruit, Chocolate persimmon, Saijo, Maru, Gosho, Tanenashi, more...

Phrases:

persimmon tree, Japanese persimmon, Dried persimmon, american persimmon, Persimmon pudding, more...

Adjectives:

japanese, green, ripe, american, common, unripe, native, dried, wild, oriental, mexican

Colors:

persimmon, tangerine, apricot, coral, pumpkin, more...

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