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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Variant of papaw.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See papaw.
  2. Naughty.
  3. Improper; naughty; indecent; obscene: a nursery word.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An American deciduous tree, Asimina triloba, having edible fruit.
  2. n. The fruit of this tree.
  3. n. Grandfather.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) Same as papaya.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
  2. n. small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
  3. n. fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples

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  • 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

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