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Definition of Maypops
1. maypop [n] - See also: maypop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maypops
Literary usage of Maypops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... fruit of maypops is edible. P. quadrangularis is a tropical American species
commonly called grana- dilla. Its fruits are highly prized in the West ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"... nearly 2' long, glabrous, yellow. In dry soil, Virginia to Missouri, south to
Florida and Texas. Fruit edible, called maypops. May-July. • / 2. ..."
3. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"... the fruit, called maypops in S. States, edible, as large as a glands on the
petiole and one or more on the email bracts, the purple crown of the ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... the latter from Pennsylvania southward. Both are cultivated for ornament in
gardens and greenhouses. The fruit of maypops is edible. ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... called maypops, is common in the Southern United Stales, where its fruits are
eaten. See Colored Plate of PASSION-FLOWERS. ..."
6. The Carolina Mountains by Margaret Warner Morley (1913)
"... of those that elsewhere belong to the later season; maypops linger on, and
when their time is past there comes the triumphant harvest of the autumn, ..."
7. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"... (the maypops of the Southern States) are entirely so south of Washington.
Beautifully golden- variegated varieties of the white, PC Constance Elliott ..."
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