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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
passion fruit
noun
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▪ Add the passion fruit, gelatine and Armagnac or brandy.
▪ Dance off that burnt passion fruit tart with fresh mango and prickly pear to get a head start on 2001 resolutions.
▪ Never has a passion fruit tasted sweeter.
▪ Serve either in the little dishes garnished with whipped cream and passion fruit or turn them out into plates.
▪ Serve the purée in a pool around 2 scoops of ready-made sorbet such as passion fruit.
▪ Specifically, it is citrus vodka, orange passion fruit liqueur, and a hint of sweet and sour.
▪ The most popular include apricot, blackcurrant, cinnamon, lemon and orange, passion fruit, peach and spice.
▪ Zimmermann Graeff's Exotic Buck's Fizz is made with delicious tropical fruit juices including pineapple and passion fruit.
Wiktionary
passion fruit

alt. 1 A plant, passiflora, that produces an edible fruit. 2 The edible fruit of the passionflower, (taxlink Passiflora edulis species noshow=1); a round fruit with a purple or yellow skin which is native to Brazil. 3 (context uncountable English) The flesh of the edible fruit. n. 1 A plant, passiflora, that produces an edible fruit. 2 The edible fruit of the passionflower, (taxlink Passiflora edulis species noshow=1); a round fruit with a purple or yellow skin which is native to Brazil. 3 (context uncountable English) The flesh of the edible fruit.

WordNet
passion fruit

n. egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks

Wikipedia
Passion Fruit (band)

Passion Fruit was a Eurodance/ bubblegum band. The original members were Blade (Manye Thompson), Dawn (Viola Schubbe), Pearl (Carla Sinclair) and MC Steve (Mario Zuber). The later formation was made up of the females trio Nathaly(ie) van het Ende, Maria Serrano Serrano, and Debby (Deborah St. Maarten).

Named after the tropical fruit, Passion Fruit got their start in June 1999 with the Top 10 dance-pop hit "The Rigga-Ding-Dong-Song". The songs "Wonderland", "Sun Fun Baby" and "Bongo Man" followed in 2000 and 2001, all making the Top 40 on the German singles chart.

Passion Fruit (song)

"Passion Fruit" is Fujifabric's 9th single. The single was released in two versions: a normal version and a limited edition first press version which featured the extra song "Cheese Burger".

Passion fruit (disambiguation)

Passionfruit or Passion fruit may refer to:

  • Passiflora edulis, the fruit commonly known as the "passion fruit"
  • Passion Fruit (band), a German Eurodance/bubblegum dance group
  • Passionfruit Theatre, a theatre and theatre company based in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
  • Passionfruit woodiness virus, a plant pathogenic virus
  • Passion Fruit, a character in The Annoying Orange series
  • Passionfruit, a jazz vocal album by Michael Franks, released in 1983

Usage examples of "passion fruit".

There are blue, black and huckle berries aplenty, and passion fruit with its lovely purple flowers.

There was a compote of fresh melon and passion fruit sorbet, spinach salad with raspberry vinaigrette followed by breast of chicken in a vermouth and ginger cream sauce, and an exotic rice pilaf containing little bits of dried fruits and pistachio nuts.

When she reappeared, she was holding out in front of her, as if they were twin holy grails, a pair of pumps that seemed to have been fashioned from passion fruit and monkey entrails knotted together in posh bows.

After she'd tried a few bites of different fruits and fish and found nothing really to her liking, he pulled the passion fruit out from beneath the table.

Christian caught the odor of the sticky drops left in the bottom of the glass: rum and passion fruit gone sour, a rancid pink smell.

Still, it did lend a notion: here in the vicinity of passion fruit, he was discovering a new and unexpected passion.

There was the rum-based liqueur made with Tanith Passion Fruit, but that was too sweet for lunchtime, and anyway it was rumored to be a mild aphrodisiac.

At the top of the mound was passion fruit, and below were apples, cherries, and bananas.