kaki

1. 1.

   small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit

   SynonymsJapanese persimmonDiospyros kaki

   Broaderpersimmon

   Part ofDiospyros

   Partspersimmon
2. 2.

   blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt

   SynonymsHimantopus novae-zelandiae

   Broaderstilt

   Part ofHimantopus

Other forms of kaki

plural

kakis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kaki

What does kaki mean?

kaki means "small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kaki?

kaki has 2 syllables: ka-ki. The stress falls on "ka".

What is another word for kaki?

Close synonyms include Japanese persimmon, Diospyros kaki, Himantopus novae-zelandiae. 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 kaki a common word?

kaki 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.