Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Asimina of the eastern and southeast United States, especially A. triloba, having maroon flowers with three sepals and six petals and fleshy, yellowish-green, edible fruit.
- noun The fruit of any of these plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
papaw . - Naughty.
- Improper; naughty; indecent; obscene: a nursery word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Same as
papaya .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Grandfather . - noun An
American deciduous tree , Asimina triloba, having ediblefruit . - noun The
fruit of this tree.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- noun small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- noun fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Daddy grew rubber trees, papaya (which we called pawpaw), mangoes (which we called plums), guavas, and ptanga, a greenish orange fruit that showered your mouth and cheeks with its tart-sweet juice.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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Daddy grew rubber trees, papaya (which we called pawpaw), mangoes (which we called plums), guavas, and ptanga, a greenish orange fruit that showered your mouth and cheeks with its tart-sweet juice.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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Daddy grew rubber trees, papaya (which we called pawpaw), mangoes (which we called plums), guavas, and ptanga, a greenish orange fruit that showered your mouth and cheeks with its tart-sweet juice.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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Daddy grew rubber trees, papaya (which we called pawpaw), mangoes (which we called plums), guavas, and ptanga, a greenish orange fruit that showered your mouth and cheeks with its tart-sweet juice.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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It is called pawpaw by the natives, who regard it highly for the sake of its one peculiar virtue.
The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades J. Watson [Illustrator] Davis
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* "Papa trees," that is, the pawpaw or papaya tree, a palm-like tree bearing an oblong yellow fruit.
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And it's thoroughly confusing, because "pawpaw" also happens to be the name
Thestar.com - Home Page Sonia Day 2010
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And it's thoroughly confusing, because "pawpaw" also happens to be the name
Thestar.com - Home Page Sonia Day 2010
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The children were in charge of making the ice cream in flavors such as pawpaw, blueberry and blackberry.
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To satisfy a sweet tooth, there will be assorted light cakes and traditional heavy cake, such as pawpaw and cassava, cornmeal custard, plus an assortment of pies and a new dessert for the picnic - Hawaiian Delight.
treeseed commented on the word pawpaw
Pawpaw is a word that I first encountered on the Captain Kangaroo show when I was very young, in the early 1950s. It was found in the context of a traditional folk song called Way Down Yonder in the Pawpaw Patch.
January 18, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pawpaw
Funny--I think I learned it when watching the Disney version of The Jungle Book--the sound track of which, strangely enough, I listened to this morning on my drive to work. Ah, youth....
January 18, 2008