persimmon

«persimmon» in Mova's school dictionary: A sweet orange fruit that grows on a tree in warm lands — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (plural persimmons)

meaning for a pupil

A sweet orange fruit that grows on a tree in warm lands. An unripe persimmon is very hard and bitter. tree →

sense in the lessons

in a tale a monkey holds up a persimmon seed; the fruit is hard as stone when it is unripe

examples

• The persimmon is orange when it is ripe. tree →
• Do not bite an unripe persimmon; it is as hard as stone. tree →
• We picked three persimmons from the tree. tree →

note

a persimmon counts as one fruit like any other; nothing for maths beyond counting fruit.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «persimmon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.