Definition of Genus 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 Genus Peireskia

genus Pastinaca
genus Patella
genus Pavo
genus Pavonia
genus Payena
genus Pecari
genus Pecopteris
genus Pecten
genus Pediculus
genus Pedilanthus
genus Pediocactus
genus Pedioecetes
genus Pedionomus
genus Peireskia (current term)
genus Pelargonium
genus Pelecanus
genus Pellaea
genus Pellicularia
genus Peltandra
genus Peltiphyllum
genus Penelope
genus Peneus
genus Penicillium
genus Pennatula
genus Pennisetum
genus Penstemon
genus Peperomia
genus Perca

Literary usage of Genus 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. The Fruit of Opuntia Fulgida: A Study of Perennation and Proliferation in by Duncan Starr Johnson (1918)
"In the allied genus Peireskia the primary flower does, it is true, bear several pairs of green leaves, with buds in their axils, and 2 or 3 of these may ..."

3. Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig, Lyon Playfair Playfair (1840)
"... and the genus Peireskia, throve quite astonishingly; the blossoms of the former were so rich, that all who saw it affirmed, they had never before seen ..."

4. A Knowledge of Living Things: With the Laws of Their Existence by Agrippa Nelson Bell (1860)
"With the exception of a single genus, peireskia, no plant of the order possesses leaves Those parts of some species, ..."

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