Usually means: Ornamental shrub with cascading flowers.
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  1. Pieris, Pieris: Merriam-Webster
  2. Pieris, pieris: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pieris: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Pieris: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pieris, pieris: Wordnik
  6. Pieris, pieris: Dictionary.com
  7. Pieris (butterfly), Pieris (plant), Pieris: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Pieris: Rhymezone
  9. pieris: FreeDictionary.org
  10. pieris: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. pieris, Pieris: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Pieris, Pieris, Pieris: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Pieris)

noun:  (or ) a genus of seven species of shrubs in the flowering plant family Ericaceae, native to mountain regions of eastern and southern Asia, eastern North America and Cuba.
noun:  Pieris, the whites or garden whites, is a widespread, now almost cosmopolitan, genus of butterflies of the family Pieridae.
noun:  In Greek mythology, Pieris was one of the names given for the slave who was the mother, by Menelaus, of Megapenthes.

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