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How to pronounce papaya in English?

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Synonyms carica papaya, melon tree, papaia, papaya tree, pawpaw
Type of fruit tree
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Type of edible fruit

Examples of papaya

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Eating the right stuff makes you look younger, and leading the charge is papaya.
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The pork's salty, scallion-studded glaze blended nicely with mellow papaya salad.
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Papaya is high in potassium and contains enzymes that help break down proteins.
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Fill your diet with colorful citrus fruits like oranges, papaya and strawberries.
From the suntimes.com
Scoop out the seeds of the peeled papaya and discard all but a heaped teaspoon.
From the gazetteherald.co.uk
Don't miss papaya salad with house-made beef jerky, and garlic-roasted chicken.
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Ripe papaya is not teratogenic and will not cause miscarriage in small amounts.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Look for a papaya that gives slightly to palm pressure without being too soft.
From the dailyherald.com
Learn about and taste mango, papaya, pineapple, coconut and other tropical fruits.
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  • Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
  • Large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh
  • The papaya (from Carib via Spanish), papaw or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, in the genus Carica. It is native to the tropics of the Americas, and was first cultivated in Mexico several centuries before the emergence of the Mesoamerican classic cultures.
  • Linnu00E9a Handber, (born Linnu00E9a Handberg 22 October 1976 in Hilleru00F8d, Denmark) also known as Papaya and, Miss Papaya is a Danish Eurodance musician. She then specialized in bubblegum dance music, in the same vein as Aqua, Bambee, Smile.dk, and Toy-Box. She today, in 2014, writes rock, pop and alternative music...
  • Urszula Bogumiu0142a Dudziak-Urbaniak (born 22 October 1943) is a leading Polish jazz vocalist. She has worked with artists such as Krzysztof Komeda, Michau0142 Urbaniak (her ex-husband), Gil Evans, Archie Shepp, and Lester Bowie. Her 1970s song, Papaya, gained widespread popularity in Asia and Latin America in 2007.
  • A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya having large, yellow, edible fruit; The fruit of this tree
  • The fruit of the papaya tree, which grows from seed to a 20-foot fruit-bearing tree in under 18 months. The fruit is juicy, smooth, and has a sweet-tart flavor. "Papain," a digestive enzyme used in meat tenderizers, comes from papayas.
  • This native of South America is still called ""pawpaw"" by some Jamaicans. The papaya has an orange color when ripe, and it's bland flavor resembles that of a summer squash, making it a nice complement to the shaper flavors of other fruits. ...
  • Native to North America, the papaya is a large fruit which is golden yellow when ripe. Ripe papaya has an exotic sweet-tart flavor. The fruit is sometimes called pawpaw.