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Passionflower

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Noun

1. passionflower, passionflower vine

any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit

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Passionflower

see synonyms of passionflower
noun
any passifloraceous plant of the tropical American genus Passiflora, cultivated for their red, yellow, greenish, or purple showy flowers: some species have edible fruit
See also granadilla

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Passionflower

see synonyms of passionflower
noun
1. 
any of a genus (Passiflora) of mostly climbing plants of the passionflower family, with red, yellow, green, white, or purple flowers and usually small, edible, yellow or purple, egg-shaped fruit
adjective
2. 
designating a family (Passifloraceae, order Violales) of mostly tendril-climbing, tropical, dicotyledonous plants, including the maypop

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Passionflower

see synonyms of passionflower
n.
Any of various chiefly tropical tendril-bearing vines of the genus Passiflora, having large showy flowers with a fringelike crown and a conspicuous stalk bearing the stamens and pistil.

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