tacsonia

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

tacsonias plural

词源

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