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单词 passionflower
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
pas•sion•flow•er  (pashən flou′ər),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Plant Biologyany chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • 1605–15; translation of Neo-Latin flōs passiōnis flower of the Passion; so named because the parts of the flower were imagined as symbolic of the objects and events of Christ's Passion

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
passionflower /ˈpæʃənˌflaʊə/ n
  1. any passifloraceous plant of the tropical American genus Passiflora, cultivated for their red, yellow, greenish, or purple showy flowers: some species have edible fruit
Etymology: 17th Century: so called from the alleged resemblance between parts of the flower and the instruments of Christ's crucifixion
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