papaya

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Editorial note

In my part of the world, a pawpaw is what you call a papaya.

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Quick take

The fruit of this tree.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

The fruit of this tree.

noun

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

noun

An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for papaya.

noun

The fruit of this tree.

noun

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

noun

An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

Example sentences

In my part of the world, a pawpaw is what you call a papaya.

I'd wager that acres of corn and soybeans planted exceeds acres of papaya by a fair bit.

I find that mildly annoying:) The Papaya page on Wikipedia mentions the use of the name pawpaw.

They grow plenty of tropical trees like feijoa, guava, papaya, etc.

But at least everyone else gets to eat Hawaiian papaya.

Not to mention we have Apple's Game Center, Amazon's Game Circle, Papaya Mobile, etc..

It's the first time I've heard papaya and pawpaw used interchangeably outside of Guyana.

If you eat papaya, you're already eating hermaphrodite fruit.

You probably don't know where the papaya came from.

I will never look at another papaya the same way again.

Some natural sources of those are papaya, kiwi, pineapple, fig, apples, and rice.

It's very well sourced (though it does occasionally fall prey into cherry picking) to show cases of both positive impacts like GMO Papaya and Golden Rice and negative like increased RoundUp usage.

Quote examples

The virus resistant Hawaiian Rainbow Papaya contains a protein from the virus' capsid, effective "vaccinating" the plants, resulting in virus resistance.

S., the term "pawpaw" can sometimes refer to the papaya.

You could read "papaya" and "corn" but not "vegetable".

For example, with the phrase “My favorite tropical fruits are __.” The LLM might start completing the sentence with the tokens “mango,” “lychee,” “papaya,” or “durian,” and each token is given a probability score.