maracock
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps borrowed from Powhatan.
Noun[edit]
maracock (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.