Emerge with a starter of passion fruit (6)
I believe the answer is:
appear
'emerge' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'a starter of passion fruit' is the wordplay.
'starter of' suggests taking the first letters.
'fruit' becomes 'pear' (pear is a kind of fruit).
The first letter of 'passion' is 'p'.
'a'+'p'+'pear'='APPEAR'
'with' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for appear that I've seen before include "be published" , "Make an entrance as ghost may" , "Come on the market" , "Seem - emerge" , "Surface" .)