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/pˈɔːpɔː/
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NOUN
- small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
How To Use pawpaw In A Sentence
- Last night he brought us three hen's eggs and a handful of snake beans, a pawpaw and a crayfish.
- The papaya, from the tree Carica Papaya, is also known as mamao, tree melon, or pawpaw (not to be confused with the true pawpaw).
- To satisfy a sweet tooth, there will be assorted light cakes and traditional heavy cake, such as pawpaw and cassava, cornmeal custard, plus an assortment of pies and a new dessert for the picnic - Hawaiian Delight. Cayman Net News Daily Headlines
- ``Exactly, Neil," Janet agreed, offering him an extra helping of pawpaw as a pacifier. RUSHING TO PARADISE
- Wow it's been nearly a month since I wrote a blog, sorry pawpaw.
- Fruits like oranges, guavas, pawpaws and others will be grown.
- The abundance of pawpaw trees, whose fruit tastes like banana custard, amplifies the tropical effect.
- The pawpaw didn't hold out both hands and I took the grapefruit, which had more pith on it than an Oscar Wilde aphorism. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
- Fruits like oranges, guavas, pawpaws and others will be grown.
- There were banana gardens and pawpaw trees, and outriggers lazed on the lagoon.
