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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.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Cactaceae, Cactus Family, Family Cactaceae
Member holonyms: Barbados Gooseberry, Barbados-gooseberry Vine, Pereskia Aculeata
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peireskia
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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