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PAWPAW

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples

Synonyms:

papaw; pawpaw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pawpaw" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("pawpaw" is a part of...):

Asimina triloba; papaw; papaw tree; pawpaw (small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Asimina triloba; papaw; papaw tree; pawpaw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pawpaw" is a kind of...):

custard apple; custard apple tree (any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp)

Meronyms (parts of "pawpaw"):

papaw; pawpaw (fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples)

Holonyms ("pawpaw" is a member of...):

Asimina; genus Asimina (pawpaw)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Carica papaya; melon tree; papaia; papaya; papaya tree; pawpaw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pawpaw" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "pawpaw"):

papaya (large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh)

Holonyms ("pawpaw" is a member of...):

Carica; genus Carica (type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas)

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