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Webster 1828 Edition

Maracock

MAR'ACOCK

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Noun.

A plant of the genus Passiflora.

Definition 2024

maracock

maracock

English

Noun

maracock ‎(plural maracocks)

(historical) The fruit of various American passionflowers, probably Passiflora incarnata and Passiflora lutea.
- 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, in Kupperman 1988, p. 139:
  They plant also Maracocks a wild fruit like a lemmon, which also increase infinitely.