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may⋅pop

[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.

Origin:
1850–55, Americanism; prob. taboo deformation of earlier maycock, earlier maracock, perh. < Virginia Algonquian
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may·pop   (mā'pŏp')   
n.  
  1. A vine (Passiflora incarnata) of the southeast United States having purple and white flowers, three-lobed leaves, and edible yellow fruit.

  2. The fruit of this plant.


[Alteration of maycock, from earlier maracock, perhaps of Virginia Algonquian origin.]
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