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papaw |
2 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: papaw n 1: small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit [syn: {pawpaw}, {papaw tree}, {Asimina triloba}] 2: yellow-fleshed fruit related to custard apples [syn: {pawpaw}]
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