persimmon

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /pɜːˈsɪmən/    美 /pəɹˈsɪmən/|/ˈpɜːsəmən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.
    — 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).

词形变化

persimmons plural persimon alternative,obsolete putchamin alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
Chinese persimmon huckleberry above a persimmon huckleberry above one's persimmon Indian persimmon Japanese persimmon kaki persimmon knock the persimmon Oriental persimmon the longest pole knocks the persimmon yellow persimmon

词源

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