pawpaw
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See also: paw-paw
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Via Portuguese and Spanish papaya (which is botanically unrelated) from Kari'na kapaja; the reason for the change in spelling is unknown.
Via Yuchi pahpah
Alternative forms
Noun
pawpaw (plural pawpaws)
- Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
- Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
- Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree.
- Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America.
- The fruit of these trees.
- Synonyms: bandango, custard apple, hillbilly mango, prairie banana
- [2015, Andrew Moore, Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
- Throughout the years it's gone by a lot of names—frost banana, Indiana banana, fetid-bush, bandango, custard apple, prairie banana, poor man's banana—but most of the time it's just been called pawpaw. At first glance, both the fruit and the tree seem out of place in North America.]
- 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 254:
- Xavier sliced the pawpaw in half, emptying the tiny black seeds over the veranda wall.
- 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- If there were such a thing as an anticapitalist fruit, the pawpaw, commonly foraged in the wild and inherently resistant to commodification, might qualify.
Translations
any of several trees
Asimina
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Asimina triloba
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Carica papaya
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Vasconcellea pubescens
fruit
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Further reading
pawpaw on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Asimina triloba on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Etymology 2
Related to papa, or pa(w) pa(w) (one’s father’s father).
Alternative forms
Noun
pawpaw (plural pawpaws)
- (dialectal or colloquial) Grandfather.
Usage notes
- Often used as a term of address and hence capitalized, as Pawpaw or PawPaw (or in other spellings, e.g. Paw Paw).
Synonyms
See also
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /pawˈpaw/ [paʊ̯ˈpaʊ̯]
- Rhymes: -aw
- Syllabification: paw‧paw
Adjective
pawpáw (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜏ᜔ᜉᜏ᜔)
Further reading
- “pawpaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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