Translation for "passion-flower" to spanish

Passion-flower

noun

• pasionaria
• granadilla

Translation examples

pasionaria noun

The tireless, black-clad figure of Ibarruri, known by everyone as ‘La Pasionaria’, ‘The Passion Flower’, was a common sight on the streets of Madrid.
La figura vestida de negro e incansable de Ibarruri, conocida por todos como la Pasionaria, era habitual en las calles de Madrid.

It was pleasant to see the convolvulus, the passion-flower, and the begonia, all reminding me of home, here among these inhospitable rocks.
Resultaba placentero ver el convólvulo, la pasionaria y la begonia, flores todas que me traían el recuerdo de la patria entre estas rocas inhóspitas.

They had walked two or three hundred paces, slipping silently between them passion-flowers that littered the ground, when they stopped again, saying:
Habían recorrido dos o trescientos pasos entre las pasionarias que llenaban el suelo, cuando volvieron a detenerse, diciendo:

And in fact in the midst of a thick bush of passion flowers that rose halfway up the coast, Jolanda saw two greenish spots sparkle in the darkness, similar to the eyes of a cat.
En efecto; en medio de un tupido grupo de pasionarias Yolanda vio relucir entre las tinieblas dos puntos verdosos como los ojos de un gato.

The two freebooters, who were lying down behind a bush of passion flowers, they waited for the lifeboats to head towards the coast, then they got up and they hastily joined their companions.
Los dos filibusteros, que estaban tras un grupo de pasionarias, esperaron a que las chalupas se dirigiesen hacia la costa, y luego corrieron hacia sus compañeros.

Mademoiselle Eugenia da Silva, a skeleton who happened to breathe, lay dying on an etruscan couch of jacaranda wood carved with anacardiums and passion flowers.
Mademoiselle Eugenia da Silva, un esqueleto que casualmente respiraba, yacía agonizando sobre un diván etrusco de madera de jacarandá con tallas de anacardos y pasionarias.

An hour later the squad passed a forest of enormous passion flowers, which they covered that peninsula that stretched out towards the sea for a few hundred meters, reached the opposite beach.
Una hora después el destacamento, atravesando un bosque de enormes pasionarias que cubría la península que se extendía en el mar un centenar de metros, llegaba a la playa opuesta.

The buccaneer and the count had gone to bed under a passion flower, watching over carefully the moves of the Spaniards, moves absolutely harmless, since they had not dared to abandon the little peninsula that advanced into the savannah.
El bucanero y el conde, ocultos tras las pasionarias, observaron atentamente las columnas españolas, columnas completamente inofensivas, porque no se atrevían a abandonar la pequeña península que avanzaba en el pantano.

The passion flower vine developed little yellow spots that resemble Heliconious butterfly eggs, which convinces female butterflies to look elsewhere so their offspring won’t have to compete with other caterpillars when they hatch.
Las lianas de pasionarias desarrollaron motitas amarillas que parecen huevos de mariposa Heliconius, cosa que convence a las mariposas hembra para buscar otro sitio para que su lechigada no tenga que competir con otras orugas cuando salgan del capullo.

It may have all seemed both miraculous and user-friendly when we imagined God had laid it on especially for us, from the harmony of the snowflake and the complex allusiveness of the passion flower to the spectacular showmanship of a solar eclipse.
Quizá todo nos parezca milagroso y fácil de usar si imaginamos que Dios lo puso allí especialmente para nosotros, desde la armonía de un copo de nieve y el complejo carácter alusivo de la pasionaria hasta el espectacular efecto escénico de un eclipse solar.