papaw

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A slave from Dahome. [West Indies.]
• noun The tree Carica Papaya, or its fruit.
• noun The tree Asimina triloba, or its fruit, native in the United States.
• noun A bushwhacker: with reference to the subsistence or possible subsistence of bushwhackers on the fruit of the papaw.
• noun Also written pawpaw.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Bot.) Same as papaya, senses 1 and 2.
• noun (Bot.) A tree of the genus Asimina (Asimina triloba), growing in the western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A tree, Carica papaya, of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae and producing dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.
• noun US, dialect, southern US grandfather, especially paternal grandfather
• noun US, dialect, southern US, less commonly father

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
• noun small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit