Pieris

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Pieris can refer to:

Organisms

• Pieris (plant), the andromeda or fetterbush, a plant genus in the family Ericaceae
• Pieris (butterfly), the garden white, a butterfly genus in the family Pieridae
• Pieris, a synonym of the genus Pierella in the butterfly family Nymphalidae

Places

• Pieris, Italy, an hamlet of San Canzian d'Isonzo in Italy
• Pieria (regional unit), also Pieris, an administrative unit and a historic region in Greece
• Pieris, an ancient name of the Greek settlement Kondariotissa
• Pieres, an ancient Thracian tribe living in the Pieria region
• an ancient region in East Macedonia, where the Pieres were relocated
• Piereis, a municipal unit in Kavala regional unit, Greece

People

• Mevan Pieris (born 1946), a Sri Lankan former cricket player
• Paules Edward Pieris Deraniyagala (1900-1976), a Sri Lankan paleontologist, zoologist and artist

See also

• Pieris Kurundu, a type 7 cinnamon of the Cinnamomum verum variety
• Peiris, a surname
• Pierian Spring, the metaphorical source of knowledge about art and science

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