Definition of Diospyros

1. Noun. A genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Diospyros

Dionysos
Dionysus
Diophantine
Diophantine equation
Diophantine equations
Diophantus
Dior
Dioscorea alata
Dioscorea batata
Dioscorea bulbifera
Dioscorea elephantipes
Dioscorea paniculata
Dioscorea trifida
Dioscoreaceae
Dioscuri
Diospyros
Diospyros ebenum
Diospyros kaki
Diospyros kurzii
Diospyros lotus
Diospyros virginiana
DipIT
Dipetalonema reconditum
Dipetalonema streptocerca
Diphda
Diphylla
Diphylla ecaudata
Diphyllobothrium cordatum
Diphyllobothrium latum
Diphyllobothrium linguloides

Literary usage of Diospyros

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, as Also, the Forests, of India and by Edward Balfour (1870)
"diospyros chinensis, Dl., syn. of diospyros kaki, Linn. ... syn. of Dio?py- ros lotus, L. diospyros montana, Wight /con., syn. of diospyros cordifolia, ..."

2. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"diospyros NIGRICANS. Dak. A tree of the Bombay Ghats, arboreous, glabrous, turning very black in drying ; leaves membranaceous, glabrous. ..."

3. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"diospyros, Persimmon ; the unripe fruit (USP, Secondary). General Characters and Composition.—The fresh unripe fruit of this tree, which is very common in ..."

4. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"The only hardy species cultivated to much extent in Europe or America, are the European lotus, (diospyros lotus,) and the Virginian date plum, ..."

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