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passiflora
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun passiflora has 1 sense
- passiflora(n = noun.plant) genus passiflora - type genus of the Passifloraceae; Array is a kind of dilleniid dicot genus
is a member of family passifloraceae, passifloraceae, passionflower family
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]
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