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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sacred fruit-bearing tree of Egypt and Persia, c.1600, from Latin persea, from Greek persea. Used from early 19c. of a genus of trees and shrubs in the West Indies.
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Usage examples of "persea".
Thetian blue wine in a small group that included all of the leaders from the exercise tonight, as well as Persea, Ghanthi and a few others.
While they were talking Persea moved over to stand beside me, slipping her arm through mine.
But I would not forget it so fast, nor what Persea had told me about his near-oppression of Ravenna.
Worldsend Islands, which according to Persea, were the bleakest places north of Silvernia.
Caesar had imagined that no trees grew, but saw in surprise that there were whole groves of trees, sometimes small foreststhe fruiting persea, a local sycamore, black-thorn, oak, figsand that palms of all kinds grew besides the famous date.
A soft breeze whispered through the tamarisk and persea trees that shaded the bench, with a chorus of birdsong forming a musical counterpoint.
From a persea tree on the hillside above, a small bird soared up, its feathers glittering bright as emeralds.
Willows are decreasing in number, and the persea, one of the sacred trees of Ancient Egypt, is now only to be found in gardens.