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Definition of Persimmons
1. persimmon [n] - See also: persimmon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Persimmons
Literary usage of Persimmons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"There are two or three varieties of persimmons : a yellow hard kind, a bright
red soft sort about the size and shape of a middling sized apple, ..."
2. The New Horticulture by H. M. Stringfellow (1906)
"Apricots, Figs, Japan persimmons, and Nuts. T^XPERIENCE in South Texas with ...
JAPAN persimmons.—A few years ago it was impossible to sell the fruit of ..."
3. Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise and Otherwise by Thomas Washington Talley (1922)
"SHAKE THE persimmons DOWN DE raccoon up in de 'simmon tree. Dat 'possum on de
groun'. De 'possum say to de raccoon: "Suh!" "Please shake dem 'simmons down. ..."
4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1906)
"... appears to decrease slightly on storage during the various stages of the
development of the orange. The Growth and Ripening of persimmons: WD BIGELOW, ..."
5. The Mikado's Empire by William Elliot Griffis (1906)
"... sugar-jelly, or sweet-potato custard, a tray of persimmons, candies, silk in
napkins, rolls of various sizes, curiosities of all sorts, come to me. ..."
6. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1905)
"The writer has always regretted leaving a Louisiana plantation before a fine tree
of Japanese persimmons was ripe, else she would have had pecks of fine ..."
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