The word 'persimmon' is a loan word from Amerindian 'pasiminan'

'Persimmon' is a word borrowed from Amerindian 'pasiminan'. The word entered the English language some time around 1612.

persimmon [noun] [1612]

• any of a genus (Diospyros) of trees of the ebony family with hard fine wood, oblong leaves, and small bell-shaped flo...
• an eastern United States tree D. kaki (D. virginiana) or a Japanese tree ()
• the usually orange several-seeded globular berry of a persimmon that is edible when fully ripe but usually extremely as...

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Etymology: Virginia Algonquian 'pessemmin'

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