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Tree with banana-like fruit
Answer for the clue "Tree with banana-like fruit ", 6 letters:
pawpaw
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Word definitions for pawpaw in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 Any of several types of trees having edible fruit: 2 # ''Asimina'', the pawpaw genus, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially (vern common pawpaw pedia=1) (''Asimina triloba'') 3 # papaya or pawpaw (''Carica ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Papaw \Pa*paw"\, n. [Prob. from the native name in the West Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw.] (Bot.) Same as papaya , senses 1 and 2. (Bot.) A tree of the genus Asimina ( Asimina triloba ), growing in the western and southern ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 ] small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy ...
Usage examples of pawpaw.
The land cleared, coffee, ginger, sugar-cane, edoes, cassada, oranges, limes, plums, bread-fruit, pawpaws, can be planted.
With the wagon becalmed Elvo climbed to the summit of a nearby hill and descended the opposite side, where he discovered a copse of wild pawpaws, apparently unguarded by fiap.
While Gerd Jemasze and Elvo put the yawl to rights, Kurgech boiled up a soup in the forward cuddy, and the three men took a supper of pawpaws, soup and hard-bread.
And all the while, there was red women hauling more food to the tablescorn bread and flat bread and bean mash and cider and apples and pawpaws and big bunches of grapes.
The yard was virtually empty, apart from the pawpaws and a wilting row of cannas along the front of the house.
That made about as much sense as PawPaw deciding to emulate a Roman candle.