Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A vine (Passiflora incarnata) of the southeast United States having purple and white flowers, three-lobed leaves, and edible yellow fruit.
- n. The fruit of this plant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The passion-flower, or its fruit; properly, the fruit of Passiflora incarnata, which is of the size of a hen's egg and edible.
Wiktionary
- n. A type of passionflower, purple in color, taxonomic name Passiflora incarnata.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple.
WordNet 3.0
- n. of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen egg
Etymologies
- Alteration of maycock, from earlier maracock, perhaps of Virginia Algonquian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We tell our drivers if a light's not working or they have a 'maypop' tire, to stop, come in and get it fixed.”
“As I wandered toward the herb shed to see if I had any maypop fruits for flavoring, my eye caught a movement at the far edge of the clearing.”
“Nadine was working her thumbnail at the wax seal on the little brown bottle of tincture of maypop when the shaft of light coming from the doorway above darkened.”
“Because tincture of maypop would likely have killed her.”
“Had you given her your maypop, it would have done as you said: sedated her.”
“And there was plenty of the native Passiflora incarnata, or maypop, growing in the Meadow.”
“I was going to give her tincture of maypop for that. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘maypop’.
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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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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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Aenn20's list
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
Tweets
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reesetee And also fun to say. Maypop. Maypop. Maypop.
Plinth. May 14, 2010
hernesheir Native passionfruit of the Southeastern USA. The fruit pulp is dry and mealy but the fleshy aril covering the seeds is juicy and delicious. May 11, 2010