may·pop

(mā′pŏp′)

1. A passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) of the southeast United States having purple and white flowers, three-lobed leaves, and edible oval yellow fruit.

2. The fruit of this plant.

[Alteration (perhaps influenced by pop) of earlier maycock, alteration (influenced by May) of earlier maracock, perhaps of Virginia Algonquian origin.]

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maypop

(ˈmeɪˌpɒp)

(Plants) dialect US a climbing wild flower, Passiflora incarnata, common in the southern USA and yielding an oval berry approximately the size of a hen's egg

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may•pop

(ˈmeɪˌpɒp)

n.

1. the edible fruit of a passion flower.

2. passion flower.

[1850–55, Amer.; from maycock, perhaps < Virginia Algonquian]

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maypop - of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen egg

Passiflora incarnata

passionflower, passionflower vine - any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit

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