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# persimmon

«persimmon» in Mova's school dictionary: **A sweet orange fruit that grows on a tree in warm lands** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural persimmons)

### meaning for a pupil

A sweet orange fruit that grows on a tree in warm lands. An unripe persimmon is very hard and bitter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persimmon/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in a tale a monkey holds up a persimmon seed; the fruit is hard as stone when it is unripe

### examples

- The persimmon is orange when it is ripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persimmon/#x1)
- Do not bite an unripe persimmon; it is as hard as stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persimmon/#x2)
- We picked three persimmons from the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persimmon/#x3)

### note

a persimmon counts as one fruit like any other; nothing for maths beyond counting fruit.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «persimmon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persimmon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.