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pawpaw


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Papaw  \Pa*paw"\,  n.  [Prob.  from  the  native  name  in  the  West 
  Indies;  cf  Sp  papayo  papaw,  papaya  the  fruit  of  the  papaw.] 
  [Written  also  {pawpaw}.] 
  1.  (Bot.)  A  tree  ({Carica  Papaya})  of  tropical  America, 
  belonging  to  the  order  {Passiflore[ae]}.  It  has  a  soft, 
  spongy  stem,  eighteen  or  twenty  feet  high,  crowned  with  a 
  tuft  of  large  long-stalked,  palmately  lobed  leaves.  The 
  milky  juice  of  the  plant  is  said  to  have  the  property  of 
  making  meat  tender.  Also  its  dull  orange-colored, 
  melon-shaped  fruit,  which  is  eaten  both  raw  and  cooked  or 
  pickled. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pawpaw  \Paw`paw"\,  n.  (Bot.) 
  See  {Papaw}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pawpaw 
  n  1:  tropical  American  shrub  or  small  tree  having  huge  deeply 
  palmately  cleft  leaves  and  large  oblong  yellow  fruit 
  [syn:  {papaya},  {papaia},  {papaya  tree},  {melon  tree},  {Carica 
  papaya}] 
  2:  small  tree  native  to  the  eastern  United  States  having  oblong 
  leaves  and  fleshy  fruit  [syn:  {papaw},  {papaw  tree},  {Asimina 
  triloba}] 
  3:  yellow-fleshed  fruit  related  to  custard  apples  [syn:  {papaw}] 




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