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Definition of Passiflora

1. Noun. Type genus of the Passifloraceae.

Definition of Passiflora

1. n. A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.

Medical Definition of Passiflora

1. A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species. Origin: NL, from L. Passio passion (fr. Pati, passus, to suffer) + flos, floris, flower. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Literary usage of Passiflora

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

1. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1888)
"This species is not a prolific bearer (Edgar). passiflora ... Masters, has recently defined about 200 species of Passion-flowers. passiflora ..."

2. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"The little spirit under the purple passiflora was happy, but none heard its ... When the passiflora blooms again I will lay Ihe crimson blossom of love on ..."

3. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1824)
"RESEARCHES and EXPERIMENTS on some Species of the genus passiflora. ... respecting the medical properties of the plants composing the genus passiflora, ..."

4. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies by Edward Pollock Anshutz (1900)
"I gave her instantly a dose of passiflora. The convulsions subsided, and she has never had one since. I continued the use of the medicine in small doses for ..."

5. A Text-book of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Characteristic, Analytical by Allen Corson Cowperthwaite (1909)
"Allopathic and Eclectic authorities inform us that passiflora given in large doses causes spasms and paralysis, and without any attempt to explain the modus ..."

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