May-popn.
/ˈmɛɪpɒp/, U.S. /ˈmeɪˌpɑp/ U.S. regional.
Any of several passion flowers of the southern United States; esp. Passiflora incarnata. Also: the fruit of such a plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > passion-fruits or granadillas
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > passion-fruit plants
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1851 De Bow's Rev. July 49 May Pop, Passion Flower, is also abundant here.
1861 Southern Literary Messenger 33 43 Sloes..hung in clusters about the way of the wanderer, and mellow May-pops invited his hand.
1887 J. C. Harris Free Joe (1888) 200 An' I fotch you some May~pops too.
1902 W. S. Gordon Recoll. Old Quarter 120 Sometimes a crop of corn..with an undergrowth of ‘may-pop’ vines, waved its tassels immediately around the hut.
1975 E. Wigginton Foxfire 3 314 The maypop climbs to ten or twelve feet by means of tendrils.
1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden xi. 212 We largely ignore the rodgersias, which at first blush seem a trifle like some vigorous ground elder or maypop.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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