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Diospyros
(gcide) | Ironwood \I"ron*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.
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Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam
are so called; also the Olneya Tesota, a small tree
of Arizona; in the West Indies, the {Erythroxylon
areolatum}, and several other unrelated trees; in
China, the Metrosideros vera; in India, the {Mesua
ferrea}, and two species of Inga; in Australia, the
Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, and in many countries,
species of Sideroxylon and Diospyros, and many
other trees.
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diospyros
(wn) | Diospyros
n 1: a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable
wood [syn: Diospyros, genus Diospyros] |
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Diospyros discolor
(gcide) | Mabolo \Ma*bo"lo\, n. (Bot.)
A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the
Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West
Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.
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Diospyros ebenaster
(gcide) | Omander wood \O*man"der wood`\ [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.)
The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in
Ceylon.
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Diospyros Kaki
(gcide) | Persimmon \Per*sim"mon\, n. [Virginia Indian.] (Bot.)
An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit,
found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in
appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has
been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and
nutritious.
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Japanese persimmon, Diospyros Kaki and its red or yellow
edible fruit, which outwardly resembles a tomato, but
contains a few large seeds.
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Diospyros kurzii
(gcide) | marblewood \marblewood\ n.
1. A hard marbled wood.
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2. A large Asiatic tree (Diospyros kurzii) having hard
marbled zebrawood.
Syn: Andaman marble, Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii.
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Diospyros Lotus
(gcide) | Lotus \Lo"tus\ (l[=o]"t[u^]s), n. [L. lotus, Gr. lwto`s. Cf.
Lote.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as {Nelumbium
speciosum}, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in
Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum,
the American lotus; and Nymph[ae]a Lotus and
Nymph[ae]a c[ae]rulea, the respectively
white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern
Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured
on its ancient monuments.
(b) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in
Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain
(Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly
sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers
who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all
desire to return to it.
(c) The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.
(d) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling
clover. [Written also lotos.]
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European lotus, a small tree (Diospyros Lotus) of
Southern Europe and Asia; also, its rather large bluish
black berry, which is called also the date plum.
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2. (Arch.) An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture,
generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian
water lily.
[1913 Webster] Lotus-eaterDate \Date\, n.[F. datte, L. dactylus, fr. Gr. ?, prob. not the
same word as da`ktylos finger, but of Semitic origin.] (Bot.)
The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
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Note: This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive,
containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome,
and inclosing a hard kernel.
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Date palm, or Date tree (Bot.), the genus of palms which
bear dates, of which common species is {Ph[oe]nix
dactylifera}. See Illust.
Date plum (Bot.), the fruit of several species of
Diospyros, including the American and Japanese
persimmons, and the European lotus (Diospyros Lotus).
Date shell, or Date fish (Zool.), a bivalve shell, or its
inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See
Pholas.
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Diospyros quaesita
(gcide) | Calamander wood \Cal"a*man`der wood\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*m[a^]n`d[~e]r
w[oo^]d`).
A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a
hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture.
It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the {Diospyros
qu[ae]sita}. Called also Coromandel wood.
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Diospyros reticulata
(gcide) | Ebony \Eb"on*y\, n.; pl. Ebonies. [F. ['e]b[`e]ne, L. ebenus,
fr. Gr. ?; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. hobn[imac]m, pl.
Cf. Ebon.]
A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine
polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs
red or green.
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Note: The finest black ebony is the heartwood of {Diospyros
reticulata}, of the Mauritius. Other species of the
same genus (D. Ebenum, Melanoxylon, etc.), furnish
the ebony of the East Indies and Ceylon. The West
Indian green ebony is from a leguminous tree ({Brya
Ebenus}), and from the Exc[ae]caria glandulosa.
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Diospyros Virginiana
(gcide) | Persimmon \Per*sim"mon\, n. [Virginia Indian.] (Bot.)
An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit,
found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in
appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has
been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and
nutritious.
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Japanese persimmon, Diospyros Kaki and its red or yellow
edible fruit, which outwardly resembles a tomato, but
contains a few large seeds.
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diospyros
(wn) | Diospyros
n 1: a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable
wood [syn: Diospyros, genus Diospyros] |
diospyros ebenum
(wn) | Diospyros ebenum
n 1: tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored
heartwood used in cabinetwork [syn: ebony, ebony tree,
Diospyros ebenum] |
diospyros kaki
(wn) | Diospyros kaki
n 1: small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange
edible astringent fruit [syn: Japanese persimmon, kaki,
Diospyros kaki] |
diospyros kurzii
(wn) | Diospyros kurzii
n 1: large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood [syn:
marblewood, marble-wood, Andaman marble, {Diospyros
kurzii}] |
diospyros lotus
(wn) | Diospyros lotus
n 1: an Asiatic persimmon tree cultivated for its small yellow
or purplish-black edible fruit much valued by Afghan tribes
[syn: date plum, Diospyros lotus] |
diospyros virginiana
(wn) | Diospyros virginiana
n 1: 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 [syn:
American persimmon, possumwood, Diospyros virginiana] |
genus diospyros
(wn) | genus Diospyros
n 1: a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable
wood [syn: Diospyros, genus Diospyros] |
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