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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
papaya
noun
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▪ Coconut palms, bananas and papayas shade the edge.
▪ I don't drink any alcohol but I love papaya juice and drink tons of mineral water.
▪ Other tropical fruits such as mangoes and papaya could be next for the treatment.
▪ Rates range from $ 65 to $ 95 and include a tropical breakfast with papayas right off the tree.
▪ Real bananas and papayas are found on the west side of the Waimanu Valley.
▪ Standard fare is available: bacon and eggs, toast, fresh fruit ranging from kiwi to papaya and crusty croissants.
▪ The snake soup and the duck-and-mushroom broth in hollowed-out papaya are delicious.
▪ We went for frozen yogurt and papaya shakes across the street, at a health-food restaurant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
papaya

papaya \pa*pa"ya\, n. [Prob. from the native name in the West Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw.]

  1. (Bot.) A tree ( Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passiflore[ae]; called also papaw and pawpaw. 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.

  2. The fruit of the papaya tree; it is a dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled. The fruit contains papain, a protease.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
papaya

1590s for fruit, 1610s for tree, from Spanish, probably from Arawakan (West Indies) papaya.

Wiktionary
papaya

n. 1 A tropical American evergreen tree, ''Carica papaya'', having large, yellow, edible fruit 2 The fruit of this tree.

WordNet
papaya
  1. n. tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit [syn: papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, Carica papaya]

  2. large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

Wikipedia
Papaya

The papaya ( or ) (from Carib via Spanish), papaw, or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, and is one of the 22 accepted species in the genus Carica of the plant family Caricaceae.

It is native to the tropics of the Americas, perhaps from southern Mexico and neighboring Central America. It was first cultivated in Mexico several centuries before the emergence of the Mesoamerican classical civilizations.

The papaya is a large, tree-like plant, with a single stem growing from tall, with spirally arranged leaves confined to the top of the trunk. The lower trunk is conspicuously scarred where leaves and fruit were borne. The leaves are large, in diameter, deeply palmately lobed, with seven lobes. Unusually for such large plants, the trees are dioecious. The tree is usually unbranched, unless lopped. The flowers are similar in shape to the flowers of the Plumeria, but are much smaller and wax-like. They appear on the axils of the leaves, maturing into large fruit - long and in diameter. The fruit is a type of berry. It is ripe when it feels soft (as soft as a ripe avocado or a bit softer) and its skin has attained an amber to orange hue.

Carica papaya was the first transgenic fruit tree to have its genome sequenced.

Papaya (band)

Papaya was an all girl pop group from South Korea. They released two albums before becoming inactive.

Papaya (disambiguation)

Papaya is a fruit of the plant Carica papaya that is also known as "pawpaw."

Papaya can also refer to:

  • Papaya (group), an all-girl pop music group from South Korea
  • Papaya (singer) or Miss Papaya, stage names of Danish singer and musician Linnéa Handberg Lund
  • "Papaya" (song), a song by Polish jazz vocalist Urszula Dudziak
  • Papaya (dance), a popular dance in East Asia danced to the Urszula Dudziak song
  • Papaya Studio, a video game developer
  • Papaya Suzuki, a Japanese dancer and choreographer
  • Papaya whip, a pastel color
  • PapayaMobile, mobile social gaming network also known as Papaya
  • Papaya is Cuban slang for vagina
  • Papaya Costa Rican slang for a speech or statement with no truth behind it
  • Papaya is a former name of General Tinio, Nueva Ecija
Papaya (club)

Papaya is a club on Zrće Beach on Pag Island in Croatia. Papaya features several pools for pool parties as well as several bars and an open-air dance floor. Papaya is one of the top 20 clubs in the world according to DJ MAG.

Usage examples of "papaya".

The large platter also contained smoked salmon, pickled herring, liver pate, melba toast, bagels and cream cheese, artichoke hearts and slices of Kiwi fruit and papaya.

There were young cocoa-nuts, gold-colored bananas of the kind which the Sultan eats, papayas, and clusters of a species of jambu, a pear-shaped fruit, beautiful to look at, each fruit looking as if made of some transparent, polished white wax with a pink flush on one side.

Effectiveness of a low-fat vegetarian diet in altering serum lipids in healthy premenopausal women: Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of unripe papaya.

Papaya King, a botanica, a tuxedo-rental shop, a check-cashing outlet.

There were chilies, tomatoes, corn, squash, pumpkins, papaya, avocado, and loaves of breadnut, as well as the boiled carcasses of rabbit, iguana, and armadillo.

There were few questions about Judaism I could answer easily, and no matter how many books I read, no text could illuminate the theological rain forest where the tenets of that complex and hairsplitting faith luxuriated and multiplied like papayas.

A few people had also been cutting pineapples and picking papayas and breadfruits from existing trees.

Spicy, al dente oil-grilled vegetables, coconut milk-sweetened breads, papaya crΦ.

On the way back they had all enjoyed various fruits they had acquired: bananas, oranges, passion fruit, cape gooseberries with their lanternlike husks, custard apples and guavas, avocados, coconuts, papayas, and pineapples.

On the way back they had all enjoyed various fruits they had acquired: bananas, oranges, passion fruit, cape gooseberries with their lanternlike husks, custard apples and guavas, avocados, coconuts, papayas and pineapples.

That is exactly what happened and, although now it was too dark in my examining room to see the rest of him with clarity, I could discern his obsidian irises shining across the desk like those of some nocturnal animal as he plucked a papaya from the fruit basket and offered me a bite.

Fresh, cold coconut milk, papaya juice, mango juice, and flatbreads were inhaled without protest.

Some modern nomads of New Guinea's Lakes Plains make clearings in the jungle, plant bananas and papayas, go off for a few months to live again as hunter-gatherers, return to check on their crops, weed the garden if they find the crops growing, set off again to hunt, return months later to check again, and settle down for a while to harvest and eat if their garden has produced.

Some indeed had come from commercial suppliers, but these seemed mostly to be the herbs Calder had talked of: hydrastis, comfrey, fo-ti-tieng, myrrh, sarsaparilla, licorice, passiflora, papaya, garlic.

One charged straight through the middle of a crowd of Hanuman monkeys who were carrying hairy arm-loads of coconut-meat, figs, mangoes, jamboleiras, papayas, yellow pears, green bilimbins, red cashews, and prickly jack-fruit from the dissolving market, pursued by enraged bazaaris who were in turn pursued by a toothless cheetah.