Definition of Date plum

1. Noun. An Asiatic persimmon tree cultivated for its small yellow or purplish-black edible fruit much valued by Afghan tribes.

Exact synonyms: Diospyros Lotus
Generic synonyms: Persimmon, Persimmon Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Date Plum

date-rapist
date-rapists
date back
date bar
date boil
date bread
date fever
date from
date line
date night
date nights
date of birth
date of reference
date palm
date palms
date plum (current term)
date rape drugs
date rapes
date rapists
date stamp
date with destiny
dateable
datebook
datebooks
dated
datedly
datedness

Literary usage of Date plum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"... probably arose from confounding the Greek puros, wheat, with the Latin pj/rtu, a pear tree, to the fruit of which the date plum may have been thought to ..."

2. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"Its application to the date plum probably arose from confounding the Greek ... a poar tree, to the fruit of which the date plum may have been thought to ..."

3. Trees and Tree-planting by James Sanks Brisbin (1888)
"The date plum. —Persimmon.—Its Usual Height and Size.— Peculiarities of its Foliage and Bark. — Effect of Frost on its Fruit. — Description and Uses of its ..."

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