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GENUS DIOSPYROS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood
Synonyms:
Diospyros; genus Diospyros
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus Diospyros" is a member of...):
Ebenaceae; ebony family; family Ebenaceae (fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon)
