Pawpaw

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Papaw \Pa*paw"\, n. [Prob. from the native name in the West
     Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw.]
     [Written also {pawpaw}.]
     1. (Bot.) Same as {papaya}, senses 1 and 2.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  


     2. (Bot.) A tree of the genus {Asimina} ({Asimina triloba}),
        growing in the western and southern parts of the United
        States, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the
        fruit itself. --Gray.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  papaya \pa*pa"ya\, n. [Prob. from the native name in the West
     Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw.]
     1. (Bot.) A tree ({Carica Papaya}) of tropical America,
        belonging to the order {Passiflore[ae]}; called also
        {papaw} and {pawpaw}. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen
        or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large,
        long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of
        the plant is said to have the property of making meat
        tender.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     2. The fruit of the papaya tree; it is a dull orange-colored,
        melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or
        pickled. The fruit contains {papain}, a protease.
        [1913 Webster + PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pawpaw \Paw`paw"\, n. (Bot.)
     Same as {Papaya}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pawpaw
       n 1: tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply
            palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
            [syn: {papaya}, {papaia}, {papaya tree}, {melon tree}, {Carica
            papaya}]
       2: small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong
          leaves and fleshy fruit [syn: {papaw}, {papaw tree}, {Asimina
          triloba}]
       3: fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples [syn: {papaw}]