Definition of "persimmons" [persimmons]

• Plural form of persimmon. (noun)

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• "I had Leong get me a case of persimmons from the Asian store or warehouse, I'm not sure where he bought it."
• "Right now I’m writing a story that was born of times spent walking down a railroad track in Illinois with my grandfather, gathering persimmons from a grove hidden back beside the tracks, hickory nuts and walnuts … glass insulators … and the bones of animals that weren’t faster than a train … I didn’t have a story in mind, just images of the tracks … it was enough to start the fingers dancing."
• "Ms. Bastianich doesn't like to have actual flowers in the kitchen, preferring to buy colorful fruit such as persimmons or pomegranates and set them out in a ceramic or wooden bowl."