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tacsonia

tacsonia noun: any of various passionfruit species, genus Passiflora, having elongated calyxes.

Noun

tacsonia (plural tacsonias)

  1. Any of various passionfruit species, genus Passiflora, having elongated calyxes.
    • Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomæa, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘The Outlying Pickets of the New World’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 114

Forms of tacsonia

pluraltacsonias

Origin of tacsonia

From the now-obsolete genus name Tacsonia, based on tacso, the name of the plant in a native Peruvian language.

Questions about tacsonia

What does tacsonia mean?
Tacsonia means any of various passionfruit species, genus Passiflora, having elongated calyxes.
What part of speech is tacsonia?
Tacsonia is a noun.
What is the plural of tacsonia?
The plural of tacsonia is tacsonias.

Words near tacsonia in the dictionary

  1. tacos vampiros
  2. tacrine
  3. tacrolimus
  4. tacrolymus
  5. TACS
  6. tacsonia
  7. tacsonias
  8. tact
  9. tact time
  10. tact times
  11. tact-ravan

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