Passiflora

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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