Crossword-Solution: PERSIMMON
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| Persimmon | n. | 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. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “PERSIMMON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fruit of the ebony family | 1 answer |
| sweet red tropical fruit | 1 answer |
| Sharon fruit | 1 answer |
| Puckery fruit | 1 answer |
| Plumlike fruit (from Algonquian) | 1 answer |
| Orangey fruit | 1 answer |
| Orange fruit resembling a plum | 1 answer |
| Japan's national fruit | 1 answer |
| Fruit that's a major Chinese export | 1 answer |
| Bright orange fruit | 1 answer |
| An edible fruit resembling a large tomato with very sweet flesh | 1 answer |
| Small orange fruit | 2 answers |
| Reddish fruit | 3 answers |
| A MUSHY PULPY SOFTNESS | 10 answers |
| ANY OF SEVERAL TROPICAL TREES OF THE GENUS DIOSPYROS | 11 answers |
| pulpy fruit | 15 answers |
| Fruit tree | 17 answers |
| tropical fruit | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PERSIMMON (5)
Now take ernudder drink er cider all roun', en den git at dat cotton, fer I wanter git dat Persimmon Hill trac' all pick' ober ter-day.' "W'en de niggers wuz gwine 'way, Mars Dugal' tole me fer ter go en hunt up Dave, en bring 'im up ter de house.
Tom was lounging lazily against the big persimmon tree, smoking his pipe, the two children digging at the roots, and Polly Ann, seated on the door-log, sewing.
There was never any like yours; and I've forgotten the taste of persimmon beer entirely." Rena left the room to carry out her hospitable commission.
Since Peking is in the same latitude as Philadelphia my lady has the same kinds of fruit--apples, peaches, pears, apricots, the most delicious grapes, and persimmons as large as the biggest tomato you ever saw; indeed, the Chinese call the tomato the western red persimmon.
Down Persimmon Street (there’s never tree north of Hagerstown, Md.) came from the village “Smoky” Dodson, fifteen and a half, worst boy in Fishampton.
Quotes with PERSIMMON (3)
Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of light. The appetite for light was ancient. Light had been eaten metaphorically in ritual transubstantiations. Poets had declared that to be is to be a variable of light, that this peach, and even this persimmon, is light. But the peach which mediated between light and the appetite for light interfered with the taste of light, and obscured the app…
Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get sooo scared! I’ll wake up in the middle of the night all alone, hundreds of miles away from anybody, and it’s pitch dark, and I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen to me in the future, and I get so scared I want to scream. Does that happen to you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? When it happens, I try to remind myself that I am connected to others — other things and other people. I…
Evening had turned the sky a deep persimmon. The remaining sunlight enriched the colors of the ubiquitous flowers and foliage to even greater vibrancy, as if the saturation filter had been notched up several levels. Caleb noted all this in passing as he strode deliberately forward. He didn’t know how he was going to do this, only that he had to make the attempt.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1973–2022).