Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by origin]
6. biological material
7. plant material
8. [wood and wood by product]
9. wood (plant material)
10. [wood by composition or origin]
11. hardwood

Narrower term/s

• common persimmon (wood)
• Texas persimmon (wood)
• black persimmon (wood)

Anotations

Scope note:

Dense, close-grain wood of several trees of the genus Diospyrus, similar in texture and straight grain to the darker ebony (from trees of the same genus), but having an off-white color. It is used for shuttles, bobbins, golf club heads, and billiard cues.