Crossword clues for pawpaw
pawpaw
- Related to custard apples
- Fruit with yellow flesh
- Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- Shrub with a tasty fruit
- Keep handling fruit
- Father nursing wife with fruit
- Repeatedly manhandle fruit
- Two short pieces bearing fruit
- Twice a year, wife brings fruit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 parts of the United States, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself.
--Gray.
papaya \pa*pa"ya\, n. [Prob. from the native name in the West Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw.]
(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.
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
see papaw.
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 papaya''), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree 4 # (vern mountain pawpaw Mountain pawpaw pedia=1) ((taxlink Vasconcellea pubescens species noshow=1)), a fruit tree native to South America 5 The fruit of these trees. n. 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 papaya''), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree 4 # (vern mountain pawpaw Mountain pawpaw pedia=1) ((taxlink Vasconcellea pubescens species noshow=1)), a fruit tree native to South America 5 The fruit of these trees. Etymology 2
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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 fruit [syn: papaw, papaw tree, Asimina triloba]
fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples [syn: papaw]
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.