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Pawpaw

noun

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.

Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit. Synonyms: Asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree.

Fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples. Synonym: papaw.

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"Pawpaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... Just before their snouts, I espied the long shining body of a black snake doing its best to get out of their way. In this it succeeded, for the next moment I saw it twisting itself up a pawpaw sapling, until it had reached the top branches, where it remained ...

— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... this pawpaw, yes, but one must study hard. It is best when plucked by a young islander of Italian blood whose father orders him up the bare pole in the sunny Sunday morning air to oblige the signori, and then with a pawpaw in either hand stands talking with them about the two ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... Clemens and John Briggs—would go with him and help dig, he would divide. The boys had great faith in dreams, especially in Huck's dreams. They followed him to a place with some shovels and picks, and he showed them just where to dig. Then he sat down under the shade of a pawpaw-bush ...

— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine

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