maracock
English
editEtymology
editPerhaps borrowed from Powhatan.
Noun
editmaracock (plural maracocks)
- (historical) The fruit of various American passionflowers, probably Passiflora incarnata and Passiflora lutea.
- 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 139:
- They plant also Maracocks a wild fruit like a lemmon, which also increase infinitely.