Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Passiflora"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Passiflora \Pas"si*flo"ra\, n. [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 {Passiflore[ae]}, which includes about
nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

Passiflora
n : type genus of the Passifloraceae [syn: {Passiflora}, {genus
Passiflora}]


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