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may·pop
(mā′pŏp′)n.
1. A passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) of the southeast United States having purple and white flowers, three-lobed leaves, and edible oval yellow fruit.
2. The fruit of this plant.
[Alteration (perhaps influenced by pop) of earlier maycock, alteration (influenced by May) of earlier maracock, perhaps of Virginia Algonquian origin.]
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maypop
(ˈmeɪˌpɒp)n
(Plants) dialect US a climbing wild flower, Passiflora incarnata, common in the southern USA and yielding an oval berry approximately the size of a hen's egg
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may•pop
(ˈmeɪˌpɒp)n.
1. the edible fruit of a passion flower.
[1850–55, Amer.; from maycock, perhaps < Virginia Algonquian]
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| Noun | 1. |  maypop - of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen eggpassionflower, passionflower vine - any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit |
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