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A persimmon is a soft, orange — sometimes deep-red — fruit. If you already know 柿子 from autumn markets in Taiwan, that is this fruit: sweet when it is ripe, and sharply drying in the mouth when it is not. English borrowed the word from Powhatan, a Native American language of Virginia, because an American kind grew there; though actually, the fruit many people buy now, including in Taiwan, is the East Asian kind. It grows on a tree in warm countries. When it is ready it can feel like a ripe tomato or a very soft apricot, but the taste is its own. The dried fruit is common too.
柿子
組成From Powhatan forms such as pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan, meaning a dried fruit. The first piece sits with a root for “dry”; the second sits with a root for “fruit, berry.” English kept the whole word as one piece; it does not split into English parts.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
persimmonnoun/pɜːˈsɪmən/
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The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.
- I warned them not to eat the persimmons until they were soft to the touch.
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The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。