Definition of Giant granadilla

1. Noun. Tropical American passionflower yielding the large granadilla fruit.

Exact synonyms: Granadilla, Passiflora Quadrangularis
Terms within: Granadilla
Generic synonyms: Passionflower, Passionflower Vine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Giant Granadilla

giant coreopsis
giant crab
giant drusen
giant eland
giant fern
giant fir
giant follicular lymphoblastoma
giant follicular thyroiditis
giant forest hog
giant foxtail
giant frog
giant frogs
giant fulmar
giant garlic
giant gastric folds
giant granadilla (current term)
giant helleborine
giant hives
giant hornet
giant house spider
giant hypertrophy of gastric mucosa
giant hyssop
giant kangaroo
giant kettle
giant lizard
giant lymph node hyperplasia
giant magnetoresistance
giant melanosome
giant moa

Literary usage of Giant granadilla

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits: Excluding the Banana, Coconut by Wilson Popenoe (1920)
"A horticultural form exists which has leaves variegated with yellow. Fio. 31. The giant granadilla (Passiflora quadrangularis). ..."

2. Plant Inventory by Agricultural Research Center-West (U.S.), United States Division of Botany, Horticultural Crops Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service, United States Dept. of Agriculture, United States, United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Northeastern Regi (1922)
"giant granadilla. "(No. 430. July 6,1920.) Cuttings of granadilla real. From the garden of Sr. Alfredo Brade, in San Jose. Sr. Brade states that this vine ..."

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