Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of trees and shrubs, of the natural order Ebenaceœ, natives of the warmer regions of the world, but belonging for the most part of Asia and Mauritius.
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- noun a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood
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Examples
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The word diospyros is a combination of the Greek word roots dios, divine, and pyros, wheat.
Museum Blogs 2009
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Autumn was just beginning to paint the forest, and already some touches from his glowing palette appeared among the leaves of the sassafras laurel, the sumach (_rhus_), the persimmon (_diospyros_), the nymph-named tupelo, and those other species of the American _sylva_ that love to array themselves so gorgeously before parting with their deciduous foliage.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850
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On inquiry I found it was made of the pulp of the persimon, (diospyros Virginiana) mixed with pounded corn.
Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 1819
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Folders > > dip molding pvc dip mustard pretzel recipe dip mix wholesale dip .... diospyros ebenum india dark hard wood diospyros ebenum dark hard wood
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(diospyros virginiana), and the coffee tree (guilandina dioica), as it is called in Kentucky, are all common in this country, and are to be found 'as far west as 350 leagues from hence; that is until you arrive at' la Riviere qui coule.
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