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    DIOSPYROS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable woodplay

    Synonyms:

    Diospyros; genus Diospyros

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Diospyros" is a kind of...):

    dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "Diospyros"):

    Diospyros ebenum; ebony; ebony tree (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)

    Holonyms ("Diospyros" is a member of...):

    Ebenaceae; ebony family; family Ebenaceae (fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon)

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