Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Chinese tree (Diospyros kaki) having large, edible, orange to reddish fruit with orange flesh and an enlarged, persistent calyx.
- n. The fruit of this tree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The persimmon of Japan, or Chinese date, Diospyros Kaki, or its fruit.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit
- n. blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt
Etymologies
- From Japanese 柿 (kaki, "persimmon"). (Wiktionary)
- Japanese. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“There is an exquisite Japanese iris-flower, of rainbow-violet colour, which flower is named kaki - tsubata; and there is a song about that flower called kaki-tsubata-no - uta.”
“Japanese restaurant or izakaya, I would always order a dish of fried appetizer and my favorite is deep-fried oysters or panko-crusted oysters. is called kaki fry or kaki furai, and those two words are probably the first few”
“(simple open-air eateries) and mobile food carts called kaki lima, which literally translates as "five feet" -- it refers to the sum of the vendor's two feet and the cart's three (two wheels in the front and one supporting leg in the rear).”
“Ai, I was surprised to see called 'kaki' on the label.”
“So now I have a need for a dessert recipe for the french squash (courge) or persimmon (kaki) that I could see everywhere.”
“We use to eat when the fruits got really soft and sometimes we eat kaki with Williams liqueur (I love it)!!! maralenenok”
“Persimmon is called kaki in Japanese, and it has been constantly battling against mangoes for first place on my list of favorite fruits.”
“As I understand it, only Japanese persimmons (the most common variety) are called kaki.”
“They sell them here in London on Portobello Market, near me and I seem to remember seeing them lots of other places (Sainsburys, Tescos), never as persimmon, they're called sharon fruit or kaki fruit.”
“Likewise the lad in kaki gear is just a lad from over here.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kaki’.
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Exotic Fruits
List naming fruits found in foreign markets and lands that are seldom seen or heard of in America.
durian, ababai, cornelian cherry, sloe, ackee, Adam's fig, apple cactus, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pitaya, asam gelugor, tamarind and 347 more...
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AGRI - crops/fruits/vegetables
Crops, fruits and vegetables + plant growing terms
agricultural crop, agricultural product, cranberry, mulberry, oil seed crops, protein crops, rain-fed agriculture, set-aside, soft fruit, drainage, cereals, cold storage house and 96 more...
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A Second Helping of Random Palavery
A continuation of my first list, "A Serving of Random Palavery". Like the first, this list contains words that catch my attention, ring happily in my ears, are fun to speak, or are interesting to ...
bouffoir, mossberry, webisode, barquette, brochidodromous, festooned brochid..., eucamptodromy, eucamptodromous, loment, keenings, moss-trooper, mosstrooping and 138 more...
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sourashtra
This list gives the english meanings of sourashtra words. Its language classification is : Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Gujarati. Ethnologue code is ISO 639-3: saz. (
Tu, a, kOn, Kaai, laath, kha, ninji, miski, dhooL, saa, pay, huut and 266 more...
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Seven
turnskin, therianthrope, mimic, mimical, mimetic, animagus, selkie, incantatory, cynanthrope, therianthropy, nagual, pooka and 200 more...
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It's a Tree
Some tree names, run across while reading.
agoho, ipil-ipil, akle, banaba, dita, batino, devil-tree, alstonia, yemane, bangkal, bagras, narra and 28 more...
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bunch of fruits
I like fruit. And I like the names of fruits – well, of these fruits at least.
persimmon, kaki, pomegranate, apple, pear, peach, fig, date, grapefruit, orange, banana, japanese persimmon and 39 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for kaki.
hernesheir (n): persimmon Jan 6, 2009