Diospyros kaki
- noun
- Specialized
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Diospyros kaki
- Our orchard includes several Diospyros kaki trees, which produce fruit each October.
Examples
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The Diospyros kaki is widely grown in East Asia for its delicious fruit.
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Leaves from the Diospyros kaki turn a beautiful orange in autumn.
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The Diospyros kaki tree is known for its beautiful foliage.
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Have you ever tasted a Diospyros kaki fruit?
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The Diospyros kaki tree produces sweet, orange fruits that are popular in Asian cuisines.
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In our garden, we have a Diospyros kaki that yields an abundance of fruit every fall.
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Many people enjoy the astringent flavor of the Diospyros kaki when it's ripe.
Synonyms
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6.7
A tree that grows in warm places and makes sweet orange fruit
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6.4
A tree that grows sweet orange fruit eaten in autumn
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9.9
A small Asian tree that produces large orange fruit you can eat
A small tree that grows large orange fruit people eat when ripe
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a Linnaean binomial combining the genus name 'Diospyros' with the species 'kaki', so the combined form directly denotes that particular persimmon tree. Although scientific, the meaning is transparently compositional (genus + species) and thus predictable to a learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Diospyros kaki is the scientific name for the persimmon tree. The word Diospyros may come from old Greek words meaning 'divine' and 'fruit', and kaki is the Japanese word for persimmon, so the name literally points to the tasty 'persimmon' fruit.