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Granadilla

noun

Tropical American passionflower yielding the large granadilla fruit. Synonyms: giant granadilla, Passiflora quadrangularis.

Considered best for fruit. Synonyms: Passiflora ligularis, sweet granadilla.

Brazilian passionflower cultivated for its deep purple fruit. Synonyms: Passiflora edulis, purple granadillo.

The egg-shaped edible fruit of tropical American vines related to passionflowers.

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"Granadilla" Quotes from Famous Books

... whose fortune was made by the nice conduct of garlic. The papaw [Footnote: The leaves are rubbed on meat to make it tender, and a drop of milk from the young fruit acts as a vermifuge.] should be cooked as a vegetable and stuffed with forced meat; the flesh of the granadilla, which resembles it, is neglected, while the seeds and their surroundings are flavoured with sherry and sugar. There is an abundance of the Eriobotrya Japonica, in Madeira called the loquat and elsewhere the Japanese medlar: it grows wild in the ...

— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.--Vol. I • Richard F. Burton

... before. Much has been accomplished. A good lot of sweet corn is planted, besides peas, onions, lettuce, and radishes. Lima beans are coming up, and some of the cantaloupes. Mr. Caruthers has brought a root of mint and some cuttings of granadilla,[40] which have been set out along the arbor. It seems absolutely impossible to get anything sent up to us from Apia. Lists and notes go flying, but, except from Krause the butcher, with no results. It seems an odd thing that there should ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez