maypop

[ mey-pop ]

noun
  1. the edible fruit of the passionflower, Passiflora incarnata, of the southern U.S.

  2. the plant itself.

  1. South Midland and Southern U.S. May apple.

Origin of maypop

1
1850–55, Americanism; probably taboo deformation of earlier maycock, earlier maracock, perhaps <Virginia Algonquian

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