Etymology

Hyakume

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Today it means: A sweet variety of persimmon with brown speckles. Full definition →

Japanese 百目柿
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from百目柿
  2. English todayHyakume

From Japanese 百目柿 (hyakume-kaki, literally “hundred-eye-persimmon”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.