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Definition of pawpaw in English: pawpaw(also papaw) noun ˈpɔːpɔːˈpɔpɔ 1 another term for papaya Example sentencesExamples - My wife chose the exotic fruit platter with star fruit, pawpaw, mango, orange, melon, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and kiwis.
- As well as that, pawpaws have been commercially planted on Rarotonga for over 30 years.
- Ugandans grow some fruits, such as oranges, papaws, lemons, and pineapple, and these often serve as between-meal snacks.
- Fruits like oranges, guavas, pawpaws and others will be grown.
- If pawpaw is too highly priced people tend to go for something similar like rock melon which is much cheaper.
2A North American tree of the custard apple family, with purple flowers and edible oblong yellow fruit with sweet pulp. Asimina triloba, family Annonaceae Example sentencesExamples - The abundance of pawpaw trees, whose fruit tastes like banana custard, amplifies the tropical effect.
- In a nearby field his tomb is a threshing floor bordered by pawpaw trees, sugar cane, sweet potato runners.
- Here, they were tied up to some pawpaw trees and shot to death.
- Endangered species of pawpaw trees in Florida, for example, grow what botanists call recalcitrant seeds, which don't survive drying and freezing in seed banks.
- So far they have planted lettuce, cabbage, mustard, beetroot and pawpaw trees.
- 2.1 The fruit of the pawpaw tree.
Example sentencesExamples - The true pawpaw, also known as a prairie banana (not to be confused with the tummy banana), is a fruit native to North America.
- All I remember being fed there is lychees and monkey-bananas, and cool slices of pawpaw.
Origin Early 17th century: from Spanish and Portuguese papaya, of Carib origin. The change in spelling is unexplained. Definition of pawpaw in US English: pawpaw(also papaw) nounˈpôpôˈpɔpɔ 1 another term for papaya Example sentencesExamples - My wife chose the exotic fruit platter with star fruit, pawpaw, mango, orange, melon, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and kiwis.
- Fruits like oranges, guavas, pawpaws and others will be grown.
- If pawpaw is too highly priced people tend to go for something similar like rock melon which is much cheaper.
- As well as that, pawpaws have been commercially planted on Rarotonga for over 30 years.
- Ugandans grow some fruits, such as oranges, papaws, lemons, and pineapple, and these often serve as between-meal snacks.
2A North American tree of the custard apple family, with purple flowers and edible oblong yellow fruit with sweet pulp. Asimina triloba, family Annonaceae Example sentencesExamples - The abundance of pawpaw trees, whose fruit tastes like banana custard, amplifies the tropical effect.
- In a nearby field his tomb is a threshing floor bordered by pawpaw trees, sugar cane, sweet potato runners.
- Endangered species of pawpaw trees in Florida, for example, grow what botanists call recalcitrant seeds, which don't survive drying and freezing in seed banks.
- Here, they were tied up to some pawpaw trees and shot to death.
- So far they have planted lettuce, cabbage, mustard, beetroot and pawpaw trees.
- 2.1 The fruit of the pawpaw tree.
Example sentencesExamples - The true pawpaw, also known as a prairie banana (not to be confused with the tummy banana), is a fruit native to North America.
- All I remember being fed there is lychees and monkey-bananas, and cool slices of pawpaw.
Origin Early 17th century: from Spanish and Portuguese papaya, of Carib origin. The change in spelling is unexplained. |