genus Diospyros

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genus Diospyros - a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable woodDiospyrosdicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationEbenaceae, ebony family, family Ebenaceae - fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmonDiospyros ebenum, ebony tree, ebony - tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetworkAndaman marble, Diospyros kurzii, marblewood, marble-wood - large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawoodpersimmon, persimmon tree - any of several tropical trees of the genus DiospyrosDiospyros kaki, Japanese persimmon, kaki - small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruitAmerican persimmon, Diospyros virginiana, possumwood - medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe