passiflora

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun passiflora has 1 sense

passiflora(n = noun.plant) genus passiflora - type genus of the Passifloraceae;

is a kind of dilleniid dicot genus

is a member of family passifloraceae, passifloraceae, passionflower family

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CIDE DICTIONARY

passiflora, n. [NL., from L. passio passion (fr. pati, passus, to suffer) + flos, floris, flower.].

A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species. [1913 Webster]