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PASSION FRUIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passion fruit mean? 

PASSION FRUIT (noun)
  The noun PASSION FRUIT has 1 sense:

1. egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinksplay

  Familiarity information: PASSION FRUIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PASSION FRUIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("passion fruit" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passion fruit"):

granadilla (the egg-shaped edible fruit of tropical American vines related to passionflowers)

sweet calabash (apple-sized passion fruit of the West Indies)

bell apple; sweet cup; water lemon; yellow granadilla (the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle)

Holonyms ("passion fruit" is a part of...):

passionflower; passionflower vine (any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit)


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