granadilla

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə

granadilla (countable and uncountable, plural granadillas)

1. Any of several species of genus Passiflora of passion flowers of tropical America.
   • 1852, Mrs. David Osborne, The World of Waters‎:

     On these plains, too, you will find the bushy oleander, many varieties of Jerusalem thorn and African rose, the bright scarlet of the cordium, bowers of jessamine, vines of grenadilla, and the silver and silky leaves of the portlandia.

2. Edible fruit of these plants.
3. Wood of these plants.

• grenadilla

• giant granadilla (Passiflora quadrangularis)
• purple granadilla (Passiflora edulis)
• red granadilla (Passiflora capsularis, Passiflora coccinea)
• sweet granadilla (Passiflora ligularis)
• yellow granadilla (Passiflora laurifolia)

• granadilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Passiflora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Passiflora on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Granadilla at Plants of the World Online

• Gandarilla

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Borrowed from Spanish granadilla.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

granadilla f (plural granadilles)

1. sweet granadilla (fruit)

• “granadilla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

From Spanish granadilla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑnɑdilːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ilːɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): gra‧na‧dil‧la

granadilla (rare)

1. passion fruit

• “granadilla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

From granada +‎ -illa.

• Syllabification: gra‧na‧di‧lla

granadilla f (plural granadillas)

1. (Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru) passion fruit, sweet granadilla, grenadia (specifically Passiflora ligularis)

   Synonyms: (Passiflora edulis) maracuyá, (Guatemala) granadilla común

2. (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) fruit from the granadillo tree (Platymiscium pinnatum)

• → Catalan: granadilla
• → Portuguese: granadilha

• “granadilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “granadilla” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010