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- noun Plural form of
papaw .
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Examples
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The sale also includes some unusual fruits such as papaws and cold-hardy kiwis.
ajc.com - News C.W. Cameron 2010
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They were novices of barely 20, and veterans in their 60s; beaming first-time fathers, and "papaws" who coddled their grandchildren.
NYT > Home Page By SHAILA DEWAN 2010
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They were novices of barely 20, and veterans in their 60s; beaming first-time fathers, and "papaws" who coddled their grandchildren.
NYT > Home Page By SHAILA DEWAN 2010
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Ternate, The only fruits seen here were papaws and pine-apples, the rocky soil and dry climate being unfavourable.
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Angola, both for my own sake and that of the inhabitants, we had carried a pot containing a little plantation of orange, cashew-trees, custard-apple-trees (‘anona’), and a fig-tree, with coffee, aracas (‘Araca pomifera’), and papaws (‘Carica papaya’).
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The chief vegetable feature of the islet nowadays is the marvellous robustness of its papaws.
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The common fruits are limes and oranges, mangoes, papaws, and pineapples, the gift of the New World, now run wild, and appreciated chiefly by apes.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Tons of papaws might be gathered where, according to accepted tradition, the plant could hardly be expected to grow.
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On the slopes, on the edges of the jungle, among basalt boulders, on the highest elevation, on rocky terraces, where there is no soil save in cracks and crevices, deep in the heart of the jungle are self-centred groves of papaws.
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If buds then start off like those of two persimmons and two papaws they will have time for lignifying.
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