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Definition of Diospyros
1. Noun. A genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Ebenaceae, Ebony Family, Family Ebenaceae
Member holonyms: Diospyros Ebenum, Ebony, Ebony Tree, Andaman Marble, Diospyros Kurzii, Marble-wood, Marblewood, Persimmon, Persimmon Tree, Diospyros Kaki, Japanese Persimmon, Kaki, American Persimmon, Diospyros Virginiana, Possumwood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diospyros
Literary usage of Diospyros
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, as Also, the Forests, of India and by Edward Balfour (1870)
"diospyros chinensis, Dl., syn. of diospyros kaki, Linn. ... syn. of Dio?py- ros
lotus, L. diospyros montana, Wight /con., syn. of diospyros cordifolia, ..."
2. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"diospyros NIGRICANS. Dak. A tree of the Bombay Ghats, arboreous, glabrous, turning
very black in drying ; leaves membranaceous, glabrous. ..."
3. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"diospyros, Persimmon ; the unripe fruit (USP, Secondary). General Characters and
Composition.—The fresh unripe fruit of this tree, which is very common in ..."
4. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"The only hardy species cultivated to much extent in Europe or America, are the
European lotus, (diospyros lotus,) and the Virginian date plum, ..."
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