Usually means: Sweet, orange fruit, astringent when unripe.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. persimmon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. persimmon: Merriam-Webster
  3. persimmon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. persimmon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. persimmon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. persimmon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Persimmon, persimmon: Wordnik
  8. persimmon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. persimmon: Wiktionary
  10. persimmon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. persimmon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. persimmon: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. persimmon: Dictionary.com
  14. persimmon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Persimmon (disambiguation), Persimmon (fruit), Persimmon (horse), Persimmon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Persimmon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. persimmon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. persimmon: Rhymezone
  19. Persimmon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. persimmon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PERSIMMON: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. persimmon: FreeDictionary.org
  23. persimmon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. persimmon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persimmon: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

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  1. persimmon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. persimmon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. persimmon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. persimmon: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persimmon: Golfer's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (persimmon)

▸ 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).

Similar:
persimmon tree, persimon, p'simmon, Japanese persimmon, Hyakume, putchamin, blood orange, papaya, orange, pomegranate, more...

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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Similar:
persimmon tree, persimon, p'simmon, Japanese persimmon, Hyakume, putchamin, blood orange, papaya, orange, pomegranate, more...

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, Persimmon plc, more...

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

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



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