Meaning & use
granadilla
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Meanings
nouncountable
A passion fruit with a hard, smooth shell and sweet, fragrant pulp, grown in warm regions.
Grammar: Countable for the fruit (three granadillas) and for the plant that bears it.
Patterns
- a ripe granadilla
She scooped the pulp from a granadilla over her yogurt.
Granadillas have a mild flavor compared with other passion fruits.
The market stall sold bags of orange granadillas.
nouncountablespecialist
The climbing vine that produces this fruit.
Grammar: Often used for the plant in gardening and farming contexts.
The granadilla climbed across the garden fence.
Farmers in the highlands grow granadilla on tall trellises.
A granadilla needs warm weather and plenty of support.
Word forms
| plural | granadillas |
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Common combinations
- ripe granadilla
- A ripe granadilla feels slightly wrinkled and heavy.
- granadilla pulp
- Granadilla pulp is delicious in desserts.
- granadilla juice
- We drank cold granadilla juice on the patio.
- sweet granadilla
- A sweet granadilla is gentler than the purple passion fruit.
- granadilla vine
- The granadilla vine covered the entire wall.
Synonyms and how they differ
- passion fruit
- Passion fruit is the wider name for several related fruits, while granadilla names a particular sweeter type with a hard shell.
- maracuyá
- Maracuyá is the Spanish name used in Latin America, and learners may meet it in recipes.
- sweet granadilla
- Sweet granadilla is the full name that clearly separates the orange fruit from the tart purple passion fruit.
Word family
- passion fruit noun
- the wider group of fruits from the passionflower
- passionflower noun
- the vine on which the fruit grows
- giant granadilla noun
- a larger related species with a soft, thick rind
Commonly confused: granadilla or Granada? granadilla or grenadine?
granadilla vs Granada
Granada is a city in Spain and also a city in Nicaragua, not a fruit; the fruit's name is a diminutive form that comes from the Spanish word for pomegranate.
granadilla vs grenadine
Grenadine is a sweet red syrup made from pomegranate, not from granadilla.
Practice
Which description best fits a granadilla?
Choose one answer.
A granadilla is a sweet passion fruit with a hard shell. The syrup option describes grenadine, which has a similar sound.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “granadilla”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.