papaya

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Kapaya A pocket full of peppercorns Papaya The round black seeds of the papaya are the peppercorns 138 Abongnin Dońa Maria alictob na botilla Pang.)

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  1. noun An evergreen, usually dioecious, tropical American tree (Carica papaya) having a crown of palmately divided leaves with pinnate lobes and large yellow edible fruit.
  2. noun The fruit of this tree.

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  • What now A walk on the beach to clear my head and think things over The path to the beach wound through ironwood, papaya, and banana trees, flowering shrubs crowding in beneath them. —  Muller, Marcia - [22] A Walk through the fire.htm
  • Fresh rolls, cold salmon, papaya, and fresh-roasted Kenyan coffee made short work of our hangovers. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
  • Whatever inner demon came up with fish, papaya, and olives just needs to come off the leash bit more often.
  • I always joked with her that she is overdosed with beta carotene as she consumed too much papaya, as her hands become yellowish. —  A Journey Called LIFE...
  • The seeds of a papaya are small, round and black in color. —  NaturalNews.com
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  1. Spanish and Portuguese, both of Cariban origin.
 

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