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papaya

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Noun
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pa=pa=ya

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun papaya has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

papayan. [Prob. from the native name in the West Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw.].
  •  A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreæ; called also papaw and pawpaw. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The fruit of the papaya tree; it is a dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled. The fruit contains papain, a protease.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

papaya, n. = PAWPAW 1.

Etymology
earlier form of PAWPAW
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