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- noun genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers
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PEIRESKIA ACULEATA, or Barbadoes gooseberry, the _Cactus peireskia_ of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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