persimmon

Meaning

Noun

• A type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature.
• The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (species) (North American).

Origin

• From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan, from the same Proto-Algonquian root *mini as Unami ximin.