persimmon

Alternative forms

• putchamin [17th-18th c.]

persimmons

Etymology

From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

persimmon (plural persimmons)

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