persimmon

• putchamin [17th–18th c.]

From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɜːˈsɪmən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pəɹˈsɪmən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːsəmən/
• Hyphenation: per‧sim‧mon
• Rhymes: -ɪmən

persimmon (plural persimmons)

1. A type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature.

   Synonyms: date plum, kaki, Sharon fruit

   • 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 94:

     I warned them not to eat the persimmons until they were soft to the touch.

2. The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).

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