DIOSPYROS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Diospyros mean? 

• DIOSPYROS (noun)
  The noun DIOSPYROS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DIOSPYROS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIOSPYROS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Diospyros; genus Diospyros

Hypernyms ("Diospyros" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Diospyros"):

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)

Holonyms ("Diospyros" is a member of...):

Ebenaceae; ebony family; family Ebenaceae (fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon)