maypop

[ mey-pop ]

noun

1. the edible fruit of the passionflower, Passiflora incarnata, of the southern U.S.
2. the plant itself.
3. South Midland and Southern U.S. May apple.

Word History and Origins

Origin of maypop¹

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