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Definition of Diospyros virginiana
1. Noun. 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.
Terms within: Persimmon
Group relationships: Diospyros, Genus Diospyros
Generic synonyms: Persimmon, Persimmon Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diospyros Virginiana
Literary usage of Diospyros virginiana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"... diospyros virginiana, Linn. Persimmon. Official Part and Name.—DIOSPYROS,
Persimmon ; the unripe fruit (USP, Secondary). ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1843)
"The unripe Fruit of the diospyros virginiana a powerful Astringent. By Dr METTAUER.
(American Journal of the Medical Sciences, October 1842. ..."
3. The Forester's Manual: Or, The Forest Trees of Eastern North America by Ernest Thompson Seton (1912)
"(diospyros virginiana) A small tree 30 to 50 feet high, famous for the fruit so
astringent and puckery when unripe, so luscious when frosted and properly ..."
4. London Trees: Being an Account of the Trees that Succeed in London, with a by Angus Duncan Webster (1920)
"Persimmon or Virginian Date Plum (diospyros virginiana) FUDGING by the healthy
appearance and size to J which it has attained in Kensington Gardens and ..."
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