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‖ persea|ˈpɜːsiːə|
[L., a. Gr. περσέα.]
a. Ancient Mythol. Name of a sacred fruit-bearing tree in Egypt and Persia.
b. In Bot., a genus of trees and shrubs, family Lauraceæ, common in tropical America and the West Indies, of which one species P. gratissima, produces the avocado or alligator pear. Also persea-tree.
1601Holland Pliny xv. xiii, The tree Persea..is far different from the Peach-tree Persica, and beareth fruit like vnto Sebesten, of colour red. 1706Phillips, Persea, (Gr.) a Tree that grows in Egypt like a Peach-tree, and bears a Fruit of the Bigness of a Pear or Apple. [1846Lindley Veg. Kingd. 537 The fruit of Persea gratissima, so much esteemed in the West Indies under the name of the Avocado pear.] 1858C. W. Goodwin in Cambr. Ess. 238 She requests to have the persea-trees cut down. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xii. 317 The sacred hawk sitting in the centre of a fan⁓shaped persea tree. 1895Sir J. W. Dawson in Expositor July 60 [The tree of life] represented by different species, as the palm, the banyan, the persea, the oak,..the mistletoe. |