NOUN | food | passion fruit | egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines |
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Meaning | egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks. | |
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Part of | passionflower, passionflower vine | Any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit |
Narrower | bell apple, sweet cup, water lemon, yellow granadilla | The edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle |
granadilla | The egg-shaped edible fruit of tropical American vines related to passionflowers | |
sweet calabash | apple-sized passion fruit of the West Indies | |
Broader | edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
Spanish | granadilla, maracuyá | |
Catalan | flor de la passionera, maracujà |
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