A tropical passion fruit vine and its edible purple fruit with a wrinkled skin and sweet-tart interior.
From Spanish 'granadilla,' diminutive of 'granada' (pomegranate), referring to the fruit's pomegranate-like appearance; Spanish explorers named it based on resemblance to known fruits.
The granadilla shows how Spanish colonial fruit names traveled the world—this fruit native to South America got a diminutive Spanish name based on European fruits, creating a chain of cultural comparisons embedded in language.
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