love in a puff

English

Noun

love in a puff (countable and uncountable, plural love in a puffs)

  1. A flowering vine with large, hollow seedpod and round seeds with a heart-shaped mark (Cardiospermum halicacabum).
    Synonyms: balloon vine, balloon plant
    Hypernym: heartseed
    • 2015 April 23, Carolyn Bick, “Tabor Academy students help plant the future”, in Sippican Weekly‎[1]:
      Of the varieties of seeds planted, only three were not edible: Chinese lanterns, love in a puffs, and cosmos.

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