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Webster 1913 Edition
Passiflora
‖
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.