Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of papaw.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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 334 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...
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