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How to pronounce pawpaw in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms carica papaya, melon tree, papaia, papaya, papaya tree
Type of fruit tree
Type Words
Synonyms papaw
Type of edible fruit
Type Words
Synonyms asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree
Type of custard apple, custard apple tree

Examples of pawpaw

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Half a watermelon filled with fresh grapes, oranges and pawpaw sits by the bath.
From the nzherald.co.nz
This is great for the pawpaw because the fruit takes a long, long time to ripen.
From the post-gazette.com
Sometimes pawpaw trees fail to fruit even if another pawpaw is planted close by.
From the tennessean.com
Lewis and Clark wrote in their journals that they were quite fond of the pawpaw.
From the npr.org
Within 25km, we slice up a pawpaw while watching the action at the Lautoka wharf.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Pawpaw, mango, breadfruit, hibiscus and frangipani trees flourish by the roadside.
From the theaustralian.com.au
She received literature on the fruit, toured an orchard and ate some pawpaw foods.
From the kentucky.com
Pawpaw can grow anywhere that winter temperatures stay above minus 20 degrees.
From the courier-journal.com
The pawpaw fruit is ripening on a tree in Lexington's Southland neighborhood.
From the kentucky.com
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  • Papaya: tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
  • Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
  • Papaw: fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
  • Pawpaw (Asimina) is a genus of small clustered trees with large leaves and fruit, native to North America. The genus includes the largest edible fruit indigenous to the continent. They are understory trees found in well drained deep fertile bottomland and hilly upland habitat. ...
  • An American deciduous tree, Asimina triloba having edible fruit; The fruit of this tree
  • An older term for the papaya tree (Asimina triloba), or its fruit. It is found in most tropical countries, having flowers with three sepals, three petals, and numerous stamens and fleshy, edible fruit. The term "papaya" is ultimately from Spanish and obsolete Portuguese.
  • Name for PAPAYA on English-speaking islands
  • Papaya, a yellow melon-like fruit
  • Papaya, a tropical fruit