grenadilla

[ gren-uh-dil-uh ]

noun

1. granadilla.

Example Sentences

Still, Baroque fare performed to period standards — for this all-Bach program Ms. Miller will use a reproduction of a mid-18th-century Grenadilla wood flute — is a kind of test for the programming aspirations of Friends of Music.

From New York Times

Stinted forest trees and brush wood, with here and there a wild locust or banana, had gained a footing in the seams and fissures of the crags, and thick masses of the lusty mountain creepers, intertwined with wild flowering jessamin and grenadilla, fell in gorgeous festoons down the embattled heights, draping their rough projections in robes of the most magnificent woof.

From Project Gutenberg

Each of our huts except the kitchen had now a picturesque rustic porch added to it, round which were set plants of young grenadilla—the best shady creeper in Africa, and one that bears a lovely purple passion flower, and most delicious fruit.

From Project Gutenberg

A porch made of packing-cases and clambered over by grenadilla, or a clematis-wreathed verandah, struck an individual note here and there.

From Project Gutenberg

They call it the grenadilla in Africa, and eat its fruit with port wine and cream.

From Project Gutenberg