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Definition of Maypop
1. Noun. Of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen egg.
Definition of Maypop
1. n. The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple.
Definition of Maypop
1. Noun. A type of passionflower, purple in color, taxonomic name ''Passiflora incarnata''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Maypop
1. a flowering vine [n -S]
Medical Definition of Maypop
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Maypop
Literary usage of Maypop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Carolina Mountains by Margaret Warner Morley (1913)
"Inside, the maypop resembles a pomegranate, but the patrician pomegranate has no
such heavenly flavor as has this wild and worthless maypop. ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"From Virginia south, the maypop, P. incarnata, is a very common plant in fields
and waste places. Both these species are herbaceous perennials. ..."
3. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"This common maypop was the plant with which my experiments in developing the
fruiting possibilities of the Passion Flower began. ..."
4. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"It produces a much larger quantity of fruit than the maypop, but is less hardy
... But the fruit of the maypop has seldom been considered worth picking. ..."
5. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"... in New Kent со., Va.— Smith (3029), Va., i, map, repr. 1819. maypop. The fruit
of the passion-flower ... maypop would thus ultimately represent, ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... yield fruit rather like that of the "maypop» of our Southern States. One of
them, the golden apple (Passiflora laurifolia), clambers over shade trees ..."
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