Pereskia

Translingual

Etymology

For Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc, 16th/17th-century French scholar.

Proper noun

Pereskia f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cactaceae – certain cacti, of the New World, from Panama to Argentina.

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