Pawpaw vs. Papaya

Pawpawnoun

Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:

Pawpawnoun

Asimina, the pawpaw genus, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba)

Pawpawnoun

Papaya or pawpaw (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree

Pawpawnoun

(Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America

Pawpawnoun

The fruit of these trees.

Pawpawnoun

Same as Papaya.

Pawpawnoun

tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit

Pawpawnoun

small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit

Pawpawnoun

fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples

Papayanoun

A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit

Papayanoun

The fruit of this tree.

Papayanoun

A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreæ; 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.

Papayanoun

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.

Papayanoun

tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit

Papayanoun

large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

Papaya

The papaya (, US: ) (from Carib via Spanish), papaw, () or pawpaw () is the plant Carica papaya, one of the 22 accepted species in the genus Carica of the family Caricaceae. Its origin is in the tropics of the Americas, perhaps from Central America and southern Mexico.