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Pawpaw

noun

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.

Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit. Synonyms: Asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree.

Fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples. Synonym: papaw.

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"Pawpaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... (f.o.b., 1989) commodities: canned coconut cream, copra, honey, passion fruit products, pawpaw, root crops, limes, footballs, stamps, handicrafts partners: NZ ...

— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... the chances that the Indians would or would not hear him, he shot a wild turkey in a tree, traveled two or three miles further, built a small fire in the lee of a hill, where he cooked it, then ran in a curve three or four miles further, until he came to a thicket of pawpaw bushes, where he ate heartily by a faint moonlight. He watched and listened two hours, and then, satisfied that no one had heard the shot, he went to sleep with the ease and confidence of one who reposes at home, ...

— The Riflemen of the Ohio - A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" • Joseph A. Altsheler

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