American persimmon
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| Noun | 1. |  American persimmon - 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 ripepersimmon - orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe Diospyros, genus Diospyros - a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood persimmon, persimmon tree - any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros |