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Definition: PASSION FLOWER |
PASSION FLOWER1. (Bot.), any flower or plant of the genus Passiflora ; -- so named from a fancied resemblance of parts of the flower to the instruments of our Savior's crucifixion. Note: The flowers are showy, and the fruit is sometimes highly esteemed (see Granadilla , and Maypop). The roots and leaves are generally more or less noxious, and are used in medicine. The plants are mostly tendril climbers, and are commonest in the warmer parts of America, though a few species are Asiatic or Australian. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Passion Flower The leaf symbolises the spear. The five anthers, the five wounds. The tendrils, the cords or whips. The column of the ovary, the pillar of the cross. The stamens, the hammers. The three styles, the three nails. The fleshy threads within the flowers, the crown of thorns. The calyx, the glory or nimbus. The white tint, purity. The blue tint, heaven. It keeps open three days; symbolising the three years' ministry. (Matt. xii. 40.) (See Pike's Head.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: PASSION FLOWER |
| English words defined with "PASSION FLOWER": Basigynium ♦ Gynophore ♦ love-in-a-mist ♦ Passiflora foetida ♦ running pop ♦ wild water lemon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PASSION FLOWER": Belphoebe ♦ Pike's Head. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PASSION FLOWER": Passiflora. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Passion Flower (1930) | |
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| Language | Translations for "PASSION FLOWER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Passiflora incarnata (maypop, wild passion flower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | passiflore (wild passion flower), fleur de la passion (wild passion flower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | passionsblume (maypop, wild passion flower), schatz (baby, darling, fund, hoard, lass, love, natural resources, poppet, store, sweetheart, treasure, wealth), schätzchen (baby, darling, honey, pet, poppet, sweet, sweetie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πασσιφλόρα η σαρκόχρους (maypop, wild passion flower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | golgotavirág. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lus ny Paish. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assionpay owerflay granadilha (maypop, wild passion flower). (various references) floarea suferinţei, ceasornic (clock, time piece). (various references) pasionaria (calobash, maypop, passion fruit, passionflower, purple granadilla, sweet cup, wild passion flower), pasiflora (maypop, wild passion flower), granadilla (calobash, maypop, passion fruit, purple granadilla, sweet cup, wild passion flower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Passiflora incarnata. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: passionflower. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: professional. | |
-3 letters: polonaises, profession, sponsorial. | |
-4 letters: aerofoils, aloofness, aspersion, erosional, farnesols, foresails, fossorial, frailness, personals, pinafores, poisoners, polarises, polonaise, psoralens, rooflines, seafloors, sensorial, slipwares. | |
-5 letters: aerofoil, aerosols, ailerons, airflows, alienors, anisoles, epsilons, erasions, erosions, fairness, farinose, farnesol, felspars, firepans, floosies, flossier, forepaws, foresail, lewisson, opalines, painless, panfries, peafowls, pelorian, pelorias, personal, personas, pilsners, pinafore, pinwales, plosions, poisoner, polarise, polarons, poorness, pralines, profanes, profiles, prolines, psoralen, rainless, reposals, responsa, roofless, roofline, ropiness, roseolas, rosinols, safroles, sanserif, sawflies, seafloor, seafowls, senopias, sensoria, slipware, snoopers, snoopier, solarise, sopranos, spaniels, spawners, spoilers, spoofers, spoonier, spoonies, swooners, swoopers, wariness, warisons, winesops, wooralis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-w" | |
+1 letter: passionflowers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 53 53 49 4F 4E 46 4C 4F 57 45 52 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000 01000110 01001100 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A S S I O N   F L O W E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0053 0053 0049 004F 004E 0046 004C 004F 0057 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)503553534349482404649573952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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