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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen egg [syn: maypop, Passiflora incarnata]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: alteration of maracock, perhaps from Virginia Algonquian Date: 1851 a climbing perennial passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) of the southern United States with a large ovoid yellow edible but insipid berry; also its fruit

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Maypop May"pop, n. [Perh. corrupt. fr. maracock.] (Bot.) The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple.