Diospyros

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Diospyros - a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood genus Diospyros dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination Ebenaceae, ebony family, family Ebenaceae - fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon Diospyros ebenum, ebony tree, ebony - tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii, marble-wood, marblewood - large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood persimmon, persimmon tree - any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros Diospyros kaki, Japanese persimmon, kaki - small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana, possumwood - 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