Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of papaw.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. An American deciduous tree, Asimina triloba, having edible fruit.
- n. The fruit of this tree.
- n. Grandfather.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) Same as papaya.
WordNet 3.0
- n. tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- n. small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- n. fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
Examples
“Daddy grew rubber trees, papaya (which we called pawpaw), mangoes (which we called plums), guavas, and ptanga, a greenish orange fruit that showered your mouth and cheeks with its tart-sweet juice.”
“It is called pawpaw by the natives, who regard it highly for the sake of its one peculiar virtue.”
The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades
“* "Papa trees," that is, the pawpaw or papaya tree, a palm-like tree bearing an oblong yellow fruit.”
“The children were in charge of making the ice cream in flavors such as pawpaw, blueberry and blackberry.”
“And it's thoroughly confusing, because "pawpaw" also happens to be the name”
“To satisfy a sweet tooth, there will be assorted light cakes and traditional heavy cake, such as pawpaw and cassava, cornmeal custard, plus an assortment of pies and a new dessert for the picnic - Hawaiian Delight.”
“Readers will learn how to prune and train their fruit trees as well as how to grow unusual hardy ones, such as pawpaw and bananas.”
“a smack to it -- a kind of pawpaw and persimmon flavor that shows it's honest.”
“But, instead of being judiciously cautious, I dove headlong, quickly agonizing over which of the pawpaw bread recipes I should make.”
“We arranged for an evening to meet and go pawpaw picking on his gorgeous property, about 10 miles outside of Findlay.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pawpaw’.
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Exotic Fruits
List naming fruits found in foreign markets and lands that are seldom seen or heard of in America.
durian, ababai, cornelian cherry, sloe, ackee, Adam's fig, apple cactus, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pitaya, asam gelugor, tamarind and 347 more...
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Public List: The Captain's Place
The recent discussion on bananaphone got me thinking about Captain Kangaroo. Some strange memories surfaced. Looking back, that was a fairly surreal show...
mr. green jeans, mr. moose, bunny rabbit, grandfather clock, tom terrific, thinking cap, mighty manfred, crabby appleton, isotope feeney, banana man, lariat sam, magic drawing board and 14 more...
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Enter the Rustics
A fanfare for the Common Man. Words for rustics, yokels, and woolhats of all sorts.
woolhat, yokel, rustic, hucklebuck, hick, redneck, bogan, goober, hayseed, bumpkin, countryman, peasant and 70 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Interesting Scrabble words
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
smoochy, zareba, hyphal, djellaba, cloque, pyxidium, qindarka, squiffy, howbeit, chthonic, quinta, azimuthal and 262 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (P)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
pagan, page, pageant, pageboy, pagoda, paisley, paladin, palfrey, paling, pampas grass, pan, panoply and 194 more...
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Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
deeded, sestettes, geggee, appeases, caucasus, isis, cancan, intestines, mesosome, palpal, valval, mama and 154 more...
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I like : P
palladium, pallida mors, pantheon, parabola, parapraxis, pasqueflower, pawpaw, pear, pentacle, pentagram, penumbra, perhaps and 37 more...
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Fun words
waddle, lovely, wanker, wobble, bobo, booboo, smooch, peon, snuffle, squeak, squirt, hoof and 15 more...
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monovocalic trysyllable
There must be some natural English word that contains the same vowel three times. 'English' excludes Bopomofo and Rin Tin Tin; 'natural' excludes contrived things like highlight-like, unhumdrum. An...
abdabs, alate, aye-aye, backpack, bedstead, bow-wow, civic, deadhead, dojo, earthwork, earthworm, forecourt and 43 more...
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ogham
birch, rowan, alder, willow, ash, hawthorn, oak, holly, hazel, apple, blackthorn, elder and 79 more...
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the grove
hawthorn, poplar, cedar, myrtle, rowan, oak, hornbeam, alder, yew, hazel, cypress, elder and 64 more...
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Names and kinds of fruit
A list made in honor of my son, who likes to eat it. A lot. Today he's had blueberries, apples, bananas, and watermelon, and that was just in his first two hours awake. Limited to fruit I could thi...
apple, banana, watermelon, orange, grape, blueberry, papaya, mango, nectarine, peach, grapefruit, pomelo and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pawpaw.
reesetee Funny--I think I learned it when watching the Disney version of The Jungle Book--the sound track of which, strangely enough, I listened to this morning on my drive to work. Ah, youth.... Jan 18, 2008
treeseed Pawpaw is a word that I first encountered on the Captain Kangaroo show when I was very young, in the early 1950s. It was found in the context of a traditional folk song called Way Down Yonder in the Pawpaw Patch. Jan 18, 2008