diospyros

1. A genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood (synset 112791037)
   is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
   member holonym:

   • diospyros ebenum, ebony, ebony tree - tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
   • andaman marble, diospyros kurzii, marble-wood, marblewood - large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood
   • persimmon, persimmon tree - any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros
   • diospyros kaki, japanese persimmon, kaki - small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit
   • american persimmon, diospyros virginiana, possumwood - 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
   belongs to: ebenaceae, ebony family, family ebenaceae - fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon
   same as: genus diospyros

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