passionflower

Passiflora murucuja

Meaning

Noun

Any of very many vines, in North America and elsewhere, of the genus Passiflora that bear edible fruit called passion fruit, and showy flowers of a structure symbolic of the Passion of Christ.
The flower of this plant.

Origin

or ; after the appearance and number of its various parts, thought to be symbolic of Christ's passion.

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