tacsonia
English
Etymology
From the now-obsolete genus name Tacsonia, based on tacso, the name of the plant in a native Peruvian language.
Noun
tacsonia (plural tacsonias)
- Any of various passionfruit species, genus Passiflora, having elongated calyxes.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, 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.