diospyros virginiana

What does diospyros virginiana mean?

diospyros virginiana means "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".

What is another word for diospyros virginiana?

Close synonyms include American persimmon, possumwood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diospyros virginiana a common word?

diospyros virginiana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diospyros virginiana come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.