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Pawpaw

noun
1.
Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.  Synonyms: Carica papaya, melon tree, papaia, papaya, papaya tree.
2.
Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit.  Synonyms: Asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree.
3.
Fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples.  Synonym: papaw.






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"Pawpaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... to put on its royal livery; the sassafras already gleaming with touches of fire; the wild grape as red as the reddest wine, and rioting over all the rich green; the bright wahoo with its graceful clusters of flame-colored berries overrunning its soberer neighbors; the hazel, the pawpaw, the dog-wood, the red-bud, the spice-wood, the sweet-strife, the angelica. On the west the velvet turf began to unroll gently downward toward the river. The quiet stream ran with molten silver on that flawless October day, and deep shadows of royal purple hung curtains of ...
— Round Anvil Rock - A Romance • Nancy Huston Banks



Words linked to "Pawpaw" :   custard apple tree, edible fruit, custard apple, Asimina, genus Asimina, fruit tree, genus Carica, Carica



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