Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
papaw .
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Examples
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Then he sat down under the shade of a papaw-tree and gave orders.
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He dreamed the gold was exactly under the little papaw-tree.
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He dreamed the gold was exactly under the little papaw-tree.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Then he sat down under the shade of a papaw-tree and gave orders.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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He dreamed the gold was exactly under the little papaw-tree.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Then he sat down under the shade of a papaw-tree and gave orders.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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I see the parrots in the woods, I see the papaw-tree and the blossoming titi;
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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I see the parrots in the woods, I see the papaw-tree and the blossoming titi;
The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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I see the parrots in the woods, I see the papaw-tree, and the blossoming titi.
Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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The papaw-tree bears male and female flowers on different trees, and hence receives the name of _papaya_ or _mamaï_, according to one's view of the pre-eminence of the sex.
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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