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n. An evergreen, usually dioecious, tropical American tree (Carica papaya) having a crown of palmately divided leaves with pinnate lobes and large yellow edible fruit.

n. The fruit of this tree.

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

n. The fruit of this tree.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. A former genus of trees, the papaws, of the order Passifloraceæ, now included in Carica. See Carica and papaw.

n. [lowercase] A tree of this genus.

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

n. large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

"Anon papaya is a cultured palate some don't like it."

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