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WILD WATER LEMON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild water lemon mean?
• WILD WATER LEMON (noun)
The noun WILD WATER LEMON has 1 sense:
1. tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
Familiarity information: WILD WATER LEMON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
love-in-a-mist; Passiflora foetida; running pop; wild water lemon
Hypernyms ("wild water lemon" is a kind of...):
passionflower; passionflower vine (any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit)
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