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pawpaw
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pawpaw has 3 senses
- pawpaw(n = noun.plant) carica papaya, melon tree, papaia, papaya, papaya tree - tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit; Array has parts: papaya
- pawpaw(n = noun.plant) asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree - small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit; Array has parts: papaw, pawpaw
- pawpaw(n = noun.food) papaw - fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples; Array is a kind of edible fruit
is a member of carica, genus carica
is a kind of fruit tree
is a kind of custard apple, custard apple tree
is a member of asimina, genus asimina
is a part of asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree, pawpaw
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pawpaw, n. (also papaw, papaya)
1 a an elongated melon-shaped fruit with edible orange flesh and small black seeds. b a tropical tree, Carica papaya, bearing this and producing a milky sap from which papain is obtained.
2 US a N. American tree, Asimina triloba, with purple flowers and edible fruit.
1 a an elongated melon-shaped fruit with edible orange flesh and small black seeds. b a tropical tree, Carica papaya, bearing this and producing a milky sap from which papain is obtained.
2 US a N. American tree, Asimina triloba, with purple flowers and edible fruit.
Etymology
earlier papay(a) f. Sp. & Port. papaya, of Carib orig.
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