passionflower
English Thesaurus
1. any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | vine, |
| definition | : | a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | granadilla, passiflora edulis, purple granadillo, |
| definition | : | Brazilian passionflower cultivated for its deep purple fruit (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | granadilla, passiflora ligularis, sweet granadilla, |
| definition | : | considered best for fruit (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | giant granadilla, granadilla, passiflora quadrangularis, |
| definition | : | tropical American passionflower yielding the large granadilla fruit (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | maypop, passiflora incarnata, |
| definition | : | of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen egg (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | jamaica honeysuckle, passiflora laurifolia, yellow granadilla, |
| definition | : | West Indian passionflower; cultivated for its yellow edible fruit (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | banana passion fruit, passiflora mollissima, |
| definition | : | cultivated for fruit (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | passiflora maliformis, sweet calabash, |
| definition | : | West Indian passionflower with edible apple-sized fruit (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | love-in-a-mist, passiflora foetida, running pop, wild water lemon, |
| definition | : | tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed (noun.plant) |
| part holonym | : | passion fruit, |
| definition | : | egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks (noun.food) |
| member meronym | : | genus passiflora, passiflora, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Passifloraceae (noun.plant) |
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