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UK
/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
- The abundance of pawpaw trees, whose fruit tastes like banana custard, amplifies the tropical effect.
- It is called pawpaw by the natives, who regard it highly for the sake of its one peculiar virtue. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades
- He simply needed, he explained, to stock up on dehydrated pawpaw, prunes, banana flakes and other high-fibre energy nibbles. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
- Daddy grew rubber trees, papaya (which we called pawpaw), mangoes (which we called plums), guavas, and ptanga, a greenish orange fruit that showered your mouth and cheeks with its tart-sweet juice. The House at Sugar Beach
- So far they have planted lettuce, cabbage, mustard, beetroot and pawpaw trees.
- Pawpaws are in the same family as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop, and have similar taste and texture to these fruits. The Kitchn
- The mouth watering range of tropical fruits include banana, pawpaw, pineapple, coconut, sweetsops and papaya.
- Native-grown breadfruit, mango, soursop, pawpaw, and cashews are regarded by some locals as less desirable food.
- With them was boiled green pawpaw and a christophene gratinée. Times, Sunday Times
- Endangered species of pawpaw trees in Florida, for example, grow what botanists call recalcitrant seeds, which don't survive drying and freezing in seed banks.
