Papaya

//pəˈpaɪ.ə// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
  2. 2
    large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh wordnet
  3. 3
    The fruit of this tree.

    "It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink, that made it unbearable."

  4. 4
    tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit wordnet
  5. 5
    An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Possibility a doublet of pawpaw.

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