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 Definitions for Diospyros: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Ironwood \I"ron*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam
are so called; also the Olneya Tesota, a small tree
of Arizona; in the West Indies, the {Erythroxylon
areolatum}, and several other unrelated trees; in
China, the Metrosideros vera; in India, the {Mesua
ferrea}, and two species of Inga; in Australia, the
Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, and in many countries,
species of Sideroxylon and Diospyros, and many
other trees.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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Diospyros
n : a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable
wood [syn: genus Diospyros]
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persimmon n. Any of various chiefly tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, having hard wood and orange-red fruit that is edible only when completely
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