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Definition of Passionflowers
1. passionflower [n] - See also: passionflower
Literary usage of Passionflowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"In the passionflowers it is fleshy. This genus has received its name from ...
Where the climate is suitable, passionflowers form aii admirable covering for ..."
2. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1870)
"... speciosa of Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, a plant which Dr. Masters, who has
made the passionflowers a study, regards as a variety of ..."
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