papaw

How To Use papaw In A Sentence

• The papayas, which the British call mammee-apple or even mummy-apple or papaw, because of the West Indian name, mamey, are much like pumpkins in appearance. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
• [* The tomatoes are cultivated, as well as the papaw-tree of the lake, in the Botanical Garden of Berlin, to which I had sent some seeds.] [* The people of the country attribute to it an astringent quality, and call it tapaculo.] Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
• My mother once told me that after Papaw died, she found some of his old account books from the grocery store with lots of unpaid bills from his customers, most of them black.
• Can I be your papaw?" one of the men asked and she shook her head. Red Brick
• Ugandans grow some fruits, such as oranges, papaws, lemons, and pineapple, and these often serve as between-meal snacks.
• The papaw is another fruit I knew well as a child. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
• When my grandparents moved from Bodcaw, which had a population of about a hundred, to the metropolis Hope, Papaw worked for an icehouse delivering ice on a horse-drawn wagon.
• That afternoon we drove out into the woods and gathered a quantity of superb Easter lilies, papaw, sparkleberry, great fern-leaves, and cedar. The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Papaya, in Peru, and that "papaw" is merely a corruption of that name. Confessions of a Beachcomber
• He wont even stay with his beloved papaw, he cried when i dropped him off with his shawna at church, oh, and he's pretending to be a baby who has suddenly forgotten how to do oh everything. Mommy Dearest