The name from lykos, a wolf, and persica, a peach, is given it because of the supposed aphrodisiacal qualities, and the beauty of the fruit.
"Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato"
William Warner Tracy
Again the askarins were playing, and once more the green-skinned Venusian girls were doing their writhing, spasmodic, aphrodisiacal dance.
"Brink of Madness"
Walter J. Sheldon
It was astonishing, in view of the intensely aphrodisiacal atmosphere in which she lived, that Marthe did not continually have love affairs.
"The Pretty Lady"
Arnold E. Bennett