PASSIONFLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passionflower mean? 

• PASSIONFLOWER (noun)
  The noun PASSIONFLOWER has 1 sense:

1. any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit

  Familiarity information: PASSIONFLOWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSIONFLOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

passionflower; passionflower vine

Hypernyms ("passionflower" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Meronyms (parts of "passionflower"):

passion fruit (egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks)

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

granadilla; Passiflora edulis; purple granadillo (Brazilian passionflower cultivated for its deep purple fruit)

granadilla; Passiflora ligularis; sweet granadilla (considered best for fruit)

giant granadilla; granadilla; Passiflora quadrangularis (tropical American passionflower yielding the large granadilla fruit)

maypop; Passiflora incarnata (of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen egg)

Jamaica honeysuckle; Passiflora laurifolia; yellow granadilla (West Indian passionflower; cultivated for its yellow edible fruit)

banana passion fruit; Passiflora mollissima (cultivated for fruit)

Passiflora maliformis; sweet calabash (West Indian passionflower with edible apple-sized fruit)

love-in-a-mist; Passiflora foetida; running pop; wild water lemon (tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed)

Holonyms ("passionflower" is a member of...):

genus Passiflora; Passiflora (type genus of the Passifloraceae)