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Pawpaw

noun
1.
Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.  Synonyms: Carica papaya, melon tree, papaia, papaya, papaya tree.
2.
Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit.  Synonyms: Asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree.
3.
Fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples.  Synonym: papaw.






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"Pawpaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... social or moral consideration. The old captain, the pilot of the wheezy ferry-boat Edgar, was our sworn friend, and allowed us to ride free as often as we could get away. Charles intended crossing the river to get pawpaws. A pawpaw is an easily mashed fruit, three or four inches long, with a tough skin inclosing a very liquid pulp full of seeds, and about as solid as a cream puff, when it is dead ripe. It grows on a low, ...
— South American Fights and Fighters - And Other Tales of Adventure • Cyrus Townsend Brady



Words linked to "Pawpaw" :   genus Asimina, custard apple tree, genus Carica, Asimina, edible fruit, Carica, custard apple, fruit tree, papaya tree, papaw tree



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