Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The papaw.

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Examples

  • He used a shell Samorty had given him to buy a melon-fruit soft enough to eat without teeth-and brought it to Mother's Mother.

    The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

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