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Papaya
//pəˈpaɪ.ə// noun
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Noun
- 1 A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
- 2 large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh wordnet
- 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 tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit wordnet
- 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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