Why this word is great
PASSIONFLOWER — [Noun] Any of various vines of the genus Passiflora, bearing showy flowers with parts symbolically associated with the Passion of Christ and edible fruit known as passion fruit. The name is a calque of Italian fior della Passione ("flower of the Passion") or Latin flōs Passiōnis ("flower of the Passion"), named for the symbolic resemblance of its floral parts to elements of Christ's crucifixion—the corona filaments as the crown of thorns, the three stigmas as the nails, the five anthers as the wounds. Unlike "maypop" (which narrows to a single hardy species) or "passion fruit" (which reduces the vine to its sweet yield), "passionflower" evokes the whole living paradox: beauty entwined with suffering. It is the purple-fringed bloom trembling in humid air, the scent of crushed leaves like green melancholy, the fruit splitting open to reveal seeds slick as tears—a botanical elegy for sacrifice made flesh.