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单词 passion flower
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passion flowern.

Brit. /ˈpaʃn ˌflaʊə/, U.S. /ˈpæʃ(ə)n ˌflaʊ(ə)r/
Forms: see passion n. and flower n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: passion n., flower n.
Etymology: < passion n. + flower n., after post-classical Latin flos passionis (see quot. 1633). Compare French fleur de la passion (1625 or earlier), Spanish flor de la pasion (1737; more commonly known as pasionaria), German Passionsblume (17th cent.).The flower is native to South America and was probably introduced to Europe from Peru by the Spanish physician Nicolas Monardes (compare monarda n.) after 1569. The parts of the flower were imagined to correspond to the instruments and circumstances of Jesus's Passion: the three stigmas to the nails, the five stamens to the wounds, the corona to the crown of thorns, and the ten perianth segments to the apostles. The lobed leaves and tendrils of the plant were also said to represent the hands and scourges of Jesus's torturers. Compare quot. 1613 and also Monardes' description (under the heading De Granadilla : see granadilla n.):1582 N. Monardes Simplic. Medicament. ex Novo Orbe 17 Elegans est cum fructu onusta conspicitur, propterius amplitudinem, florem habet albæ rosæ persimilem, in cuius foliis aliquæ veluti passionis Christi figuræ delineatæ conspiciuntur.
Any plant of the genus Passiflora (family Passifloraceae), which consists of tropical and subtropical plants (mostly climbing vines), many of which have an edible, pulpy fruit. Also: a flower of any of these plants.
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maracock1609
passion flower1633
Virginian climber1688
passion-tree1728
love-in-a-mist1731
honeysuckle1756
passiflora1760
passionwort1846
New Zealand passion-flower1853
passion vine1853
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. ii. 616 The flower of the Granadille they say..hath the marks of the Passion, Nailes, Pillar, Whippes, Thornes, Wounds.]
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) App. 1591 Maracoc or Passion-floure. The Spanish Friers for some imaginarie resemblances..first called it Flos Passionis.
1689 N. Tate tr. A. Cowley 3rd Pt. Wks. iv. 92 Flos Passionia christi. The Passion-Flower, or Virginian Climber. The first of these Names was glven it by the Jesuites, who pretend to find in it all the Instruments of our Lord's Passion; not so easily discern'd by men of Senses not so fine as they.
1752 G. White Garden Kalendar 11 Mar. (1975) 10 Dug the flower-basons in the field... Prepared two basons, one on each side the street-door, for passion-flowers.
1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 100 Three species of passion flowers are found in this island.
1833 J. G. Whittier Toussaint l'Ouverture 17 The passion-flower, with symbol holy, Twining its tendrils long and lowly.
1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 127/1 If the violet began to talk to you, as roses and passion-flowers do in Tennyson's garden-song, would you frown at the little upstart?
1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 22/1 The hyacinth, the tulip, the passion-flower, and the rose seem to have blossomed for us from some illuminated manuscript.
1908 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 35 343 This beautiful passion-flower [sc. Passiflora ciliata] seems to have been much misunderstood by subsequent botanists.
1931 C. Bax Venetian i. ii, in Valiant Ladies 38 You might just as well upset yourself because a cactus doesn't bear passion-flowers.
1974 S. Clapham Greenhouse Bk. xiv. 130 The best known species of passion-flower is Passiflora caerulea, with flowers consisting of white or pinkish petals and sepals against which is set the corona of filaments, blue, white and purple.
2002 OG Jan. 11 (caption) The passionflower is an important larval host plant for butterflies, especially the Gulf Fritillary, Zebra Heliconian, and Julia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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