Definition of Peireskia

1. Noun. Genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Peireskia

Peeps
Peer Panja
Peers
Pegah
Pegasean
Pegasus
Peggy
Peggys
Pehlevi
Pei
Peiffer
Peiping
Peirce
Peirce's law
Peircean
Peireskia (current term)
Peisistratus
Peke
Pekes
Pekin
Pekinese
Peking
Peking duck
Peking man
Pekingese
Pekingologist
Pekingologists
Pekingology
Pel-Ebstein disease
Pel-Ebstein fever

Literary usage of Peireskia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig, Lyon Playfair Playfair, John White Webster (1841)
"Several of them, of which I shall only specify the beautiful Thunbergia alala, and the genus Peireskia, throve quite astonishingly ; the blossoms of the ..."

2. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"We are able apparently to graft easily all other species of Cactaceae on Peireskia aculeata, while other species of Peireskia graft badly on this species. ..."

3. The Fruit of Opuntia Fulgida: A Study of Perennation and Proliferation in by Duncan Starr Johnson (1918)
"On the contrary, Opuntia and its close relative Peireskia (which also has a leafy ovary, the areoles of which, in the flower, proliferate to secondary ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1909)
"In the leaves of Epiphyllum are found certain albumen bodies not found in the leaves of the related plant Peireskia. ..."

5. Leaflets of Botanical Observation and Criticism by Edward Lee Greene (1906)
"... and still it would have been a mere synonym of Peireskia, of which the character of a "globose leafy 3-seeded fruit," assigned by Necker is quite the ..."

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