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Papaw   Listen
noun
Papaw  n.  (Written also pawpaw)  
1.
(Bot.) Same as papaya, senses 1 and 2.
2.
(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.





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"Papaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... there on the country roads we found lemon, papaw, orange, lime, and fig trees; also several sorts of palms, among them the cocoa, the date, and the palmetto. We saw some bamboos forty feet high, with stems as thick as a man's arm. Jungles of the mangrove tree stood up out of swamps; propped on their interlacing ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


Words linked to "Papaw" :   Asimina triloba, pawpaw, papaw tree, custard apple, edible fruit


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