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单词 japanese persimmon
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Japanese 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.
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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.
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