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Webster 1913 Edition


Passiflora

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Pas′si-flo′ra

,
Noun.
[NL., from L.
passio
passion (fr.
pati
,
passus
, to suffer) +
flos
,
floris
, flower.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order
Passifloreæ
, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.