tacsonia
English
editEtymology
editFrom the now-obsolete genus name Tacsonia, based on tacso, the name of the plant in a native Peruvian language.
Noun
edittacsonia (plural tacsonias)
- Any of various passionfruit species, genus Passiflora, having elongated calyxes.
- 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:
- 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.