passionflower

See also: Passionflower, passion flower, Passion flower, and passion-flower

English

Passiflora murucuja, a passionflower of Hispaniola

Alternative forms

• Passionflower, passion flower, Passion flower, passion-flower

Etymology

Calque of Italian fior della Passione or Latin flōs Passiōnis; after the appearance and number of its various parts, thought to be symbolic of Christ's passion.

Pronunciation

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Noun

passionflower (plural passionflowers)

1. Any of very many vines, in North America and elsewhere, of the genus Passiflora that bear edible fruit called passion fruit, and showy flowers of a structure symbolic of the Passion of Christ.
   • 1819, Robert Southey, chapter XXXIV, in History of Brazil, 3rd part, London: […] [William Pople] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 185:

     The Priests observed frequent fasts, and abstained at all times from certain animals and fruits, especially from the Granadilla, the fruit of the Passion-flower, because, say the lying Jesuits, of the mysteries which are signified in that marvellous blossom: the people also were frequently required to fast.

2. The flower of this plant.

Related terms

• Passiflora
• passion fruit

Translations

plant of the genus Passiflora

• Bulgarian: пасифлора f (pasiflora), часовниче n (časovniče)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西番蓮／西番莲 (zh) (xīfānlián, xīfanlián)

• Finnish: kärsimyskukka (fi)
• German: Passionsblume (de) f
• Hungarian: golgotavirág (hu)
• Ido: pasifloro (io)
• Irish: lus na páise m, páiseog chorcra f
• Italian: frutto della passione (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pasjonsblomst m

• Polish: męczennica (pl) f, passiflora (pl) f
• Portuguese: maracujá (pt) m, maracujazeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: floarea-pasiunii f
• Russian: страстоцве́т (ru) m (strastocvét)
• Spanish: pasionaria (es) f
• Turkish: çarkıfelek (tr)

flower

• Burmese: စူကာ (my) (cuka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西番蓮／西番莲 (zh) (xīfānlián), 百香果 (zh) (bǎixiāngguǒ), 雞蛋果／鸡蛋果 (zh) (jīdànguǒ)

• Finnish: kärsimyskukka (fi)
• Polish: męczennica (pl) f, passiflora (pl) f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: pasionaria (es) f
• Turkish: çarkıfelek (tr)

References

• Passiflora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Passiflora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Passiflora on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “passionflower”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “passionflower”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Passiflora at USDA Plants database