Persea

Word PERSEA
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Hoja de aguacate (avocado leaf) persea americana: Both fresh and dried avocado leaves, with thier licorace-like aroma, are used to season mixiotes, soups, chicken and fish dishes, and beans. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Evidently, the mastodons were not the only ones with a taste for the velvety flesh of persea americana, because by 6,000 BC the inhabitants of Tehuacan were cultivating the fruit, resulting in a larger size and an oval, rather than round, seed shape. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Bright shall your breast be with the flower of the persea, and your tresses anointed heavy with sweet odor. ❋ Eug��ne Brieux (1895)

Nay, he outwitted the Gods, he made night into day, he lived out twice his years, with revel and love and wine in the lamp-lit groves of persea trees. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Willows are decreasing in number, and the persea, one of the sacred trees of Ancient Egypt, is now only to be found in gardens. ❋ M. L. McClure (1881)

I have seen the things over which the persea tree spreadeth [its branches] within Re-stau. ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)

In the tree, any tree, acacia or persea, Mannhardt wishes to recognise the Sun-tree of the Lett songs. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

[* G. saccharoides.] [* Laurus persea (alligator pear).] ❋ Unknown (1851)

Among the plants cultivated by man, the sugar-cane, the plantain, the mammee-apple, and alligator-pear (Laurus persea), alone have the property of the cocoa-tree; that of being watered equally well with fresh and salt water. ❋ Unknown (1851)

* Every hut is surrounded with enormous trees of persea, * at the foot of which the aristolochiae, paullinia, and other creepers vegetate. ❋ Unknown (1851)

He had planted a garden, where the fig-tree of Europe was found in company with the persea, and the lemon-tree with the mammee. ❋ Unknown (1851)

He asserts that he observed [sometimes?] two seeds, lying one against the other, as in the alligator pear-tree (Laurus persea). ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

Every hut is surrounded with enormous trees of persea, * (* Laurus persea (alligator pear).) at the foot of which the aristolochiae, paullinia, and other creepers vegetate. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

[sometimes?] two seeds, lying one against the other, as in the alligator pear-tree (Laurus persea). ❋ Unknown (1851)

You are a fresh rose-garland with which I crown myself -- he is a sacred persea-tree before which I bow. " ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

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