Pawpaw

Definitions: Pawpaw

Pawpaw

Noun

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

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

3. Fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples.

Date "pawpaw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Synonyms: Pawpaw

Synonyms: melon tree (n), papaia (n), papaw (n), papaw tree (n), papaya (n), papaya tree (n). (additional references)

The Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is North America's largest native edible fruit. The pawpaw ranges from Florida to Southern Ontario, and as far west as Nebraska. The fruit has a tropical flavor, similar to banana or mango.

Larger pawpaw

Food | List of fruits | List of vegetables

Crosswords: Pawpaw

English words defined with "pawpaw": Asimina ♦ genus Asimina. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pawpaw": ANNONA PURPUREA ♦ pawpaw tree. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Pawpaw Patch: A Novel (reference) Possum in the Pawpaw Tree: A Seasonal Guide to Midwestern Gardening (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The pawpaw tree, Asimina triloba, yields 3- to 5-inch-long fruit, the largest fruit native to the United States. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
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"Pawpaw" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pawpaw" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Expression using "pawpaw": pawpaw tree. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "pawpaw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏ببو فاكهة. (various references)

Danish		papaya (melon tree, papaia, papaw, papaya tree, pawpaw tree), melontrae (melon tree, papaia, papaya tree, pawpaw tree). (various references)

Dutch		papaja (melon tree, papaia, papaw, papaya, papaya tree, pawpaw tree), meloenboom (melon tree, papaia, papaya tree, pawpaw tree). (various references)

Finnish		papaija (melon tree, papaia, papaya tree, pawpaw tree), melonipuu (melon tree, papaia, papaya tree, pawpaw tree). (various references)

French		papaye (papaw, papaya). (various references)

German		Papayabaum (melon tree, papaia, papaya tree, pawpaw tree), Melonenbaum (melon tree, papaia, papaya tree, pawpaw tree). (various references)

Greek		καρική της παπάυας (melon tree, papaia, papaya tree, pawpaw tree), παπάγια (melon tree, papaia, papaw, papaya tree, pawpaw tree). (various references)

Hungarian		papája (papaya). (various references)

Italian		papaia (melon tree, papaia, papaw, papaya, papaya tree, pawpaw tree). (various references)

Pig Latin		awpawpay

Portuguese		papaieira (papaia (melon tree, papaia, papaya tree, pawpaw tree), mamão (melon tree, papaia, papaw, papaya tree, paper, pawpaw tree). (various references)

Russian		непристойный (bawdy, beastly, coarse, dirty, disorderly, greasy, nasty, obscene, ribald, salacious, salty, scurrilous, smutty, unchaste, uncomely, unseemly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrsta papaje. (various references)

Spanish		papayo (melon tree, papaia, papaw, papaya, papaya tree, pawpaw tree), papaya (papaw, papaya). (various references)

Swedish		papaya (melon tree, papaia, papaw, papaya, papaya tree, pawpaw tree). (various references)

Turkish		papaya (papaw, papaya). (various references)

Ukranian		диняче дерево (papaw, papaya). (various references)

Vietnamese		cây đu đủ quả đu đủ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Carica papaya. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pawpaw": pawpaws. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-p-p-w-w"
	-1 letter: papaw.
	-2 letters: papa.
	-3 letters: awa, pap, paw, wap, waw.
	-4 letters: aa, aw, pa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-p-p-w-w"
	+1 letter: pawpaws.
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