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pawpaw

DEFINITIONS OF: pawpaw

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n 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
Type of:
fruit tree
tree bearing edible fruit

n small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit

Synonyms:
Asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree
Type of:
custard apple, custard apple tree
any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp

n fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples

Synonyms:
papaw
Type of:
edible fruit
edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
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