Passiflora Incarnata (Noun)
Meaning
Of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen egg.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The passionflower passiflora incarnata, native to the southern United States, bears a unique fruit often referred to as a maypop due to its large, hen egg-sized berry.
- Maypops are an insipid berry of the passiflora incarnata that has grown naturally throughout the southern United States.
- As children in the rural southern United States, many locals fondly recall consuming the juice from passiflora incarnata fruits that grow freely on local trails.
- Folk healers and Native American communities within the southern United States long prized passiflora incarnata due to the versatile applications and treatments available using this passiflora plant with large berries the size of hen eggs.
- Herbalist manuals sometimes advise cultivating the native passiflora incarnata due to the purportedly relaxing effect associated with consumption of this rather large yet rather insipid hen-egg-sized fruit berry from this passionflower vine, long abundant throughout southern regions.