Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various tropical American passionflowers, especially Passiflora quadrangularis, bearing edible fruit.
- n. The egg-shaped, fleshy fruit of such a plant.
Wiktionary
- n. any of several Passion flowers of tropical America
- n. the edible fruit of these plants
Etymologies
- Spanish, diminutive of granada, pomegranate, from Latin grānātum, from neuter of grānātus, seedy; see pomegranate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The plant produces small berry-like fruit called granadilla or water lemon.”
“The granadilla is the fruit of a species of passion flower (Passiflora quadrangularis), often six to eight inches in diameter.”
“The passion-flowers, also called granadilla fruit that resemble shells, have edible fruits, the condition they eat ripe to prevent their toxic (See Toxicity below).”
“Granada china: golden passion fruit or granadilla (Passiflora ligularis)”
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“And here I am scoffing grapefruit, kiwi fruit, and granadilla in one sitting, plus muesli and yoghurt for breakfast - and I can't get enough of it.”
“The bright ornj layer is lukuma- tastes little melony with mebee just a whiff of choco/coffee, granadilla is mildly sweet, and guanabana tastes refresshingly green.”
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“Well I did read that the granadilla tends to deteriorate quickly shortly after harvest.”
“I started out with some fresh ricotta, added some sliced peaches and scraped all the gooey pulp out of my granadilla.”
“I've never tried granadilla either, but I was also wondering if there might be a way to extract the pulp from the seeds like you do with passionfruit.”
“So, me, my granadilla, and my 25 euro cents headed on home.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘granadilla’.
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Exotic Fruits
List naming fruits found in foreign markets and lands that are seldom seen or heard of in America.
durian, ababai, cornelian cherry, sloe, ackee, Adam's fig, apple cactus, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pitaya, asam gelugor, tamarind and 347 more...
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tropic topics
tropical topicals
subtropic, phototropic, hypermetropic, geotropic, eolotropic, pleiotropic, inotropic, adrenocorticotropic, coptic tropic, apogeotropic, allotropic, orthotropic and 76 more...
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Resounding Words
great timbre
sone, sonata, resound, sonorous, consonant, unison, sonic, swan, sonant, sonnet, dissonance, scraunch and 142 more...
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hugslife's Words
immure, torpid, sanguine, fagin, jejune, anomie, occult, motorik, chooglin, jeremiad, cryptozoology, plinth and 61 more...
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Peruvian fruits
As dictated by my Peruvian pal Richard. So far I've tasted two or three of these. More hopefully in November 07.
granadilla, lúcuma, melocotón, chirimoya, guanábana, pacay, tuna
Tweets
Looking for tweets for granadilla.
yarb Fruit, shaped like maracas. One slices off the top like an egg, to reveal the fruit, which resembles a brain, floating in potable translucent juices within.
Utterly delicious, one of the tastiest fruits the world has to offer. Oct 20, 2007