Etymology

persicaria

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Latin persicarius
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  1. Latin · derived frompersicarius“a peach tree”
  2. English todaypersicaria

From Latin persicarius (“a peach tree”). See peach.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.