granadilla

[gran-uh-dil-uh]

noun

the edible fruit of any of several species of passionflower, especially Passiflora edulis (purple granadilla) or P. quadrangularis (giant granadilla).

any of the plants yielding these fruits.

Also grenadilla.

Origin of granadilla

1605–15; < Spanish granadilla, diminutive of granada pomegranate

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Historical Examples of granadilla

Mr. Caruthers has brought a root of mint and some cuttings of granadilla, which have been set out along the arbor.
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
Nellie van De Grift Sanchez
Granadilla, gran-a-dil′a, n. the edible fruit of a species of passion-flower.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
Various
The Granadilla (Passiflora quadrangularis) is about the size of an apple, but rather oblong.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
J. J. von Tschudi
The Granadilla is a shrub or bush, and it twines round the trunks of trees, or climbs up the walls of the Ranchos.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
J. J. von Tschudi
Sapadilla is really a fruit something like a medlar, but the name is given to all sorts of fruit, notably Granadilla.
Jamaican Song and Story
Walter Jekyll

British Dictionary definitions for granadilla

granadilla

noun

any of various passionflowers, such as Passiflora quadrangularis (giant granadilla), that have edible egg-shaped fleshy fruit

Also called: passion fruit the fruit of such a plant

Word Origin for granadilla

C18: from Spanish, diminutive of granada pomegranate, from Late Latin grānātum

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