papaya

n. type of tropical fruit

The papaya (from Carib via Spanish), is the fruit of the tree Carica papaya, in the genus Carica. It is native to the tropics of the Americas, and was cultivated in Mexico several centuries before the emergence of the Mesoamerican classic cultures. Nowadays, the papaya is also known as fruta bomba (Cuba), lechosa (Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and the Dominican Republic), mamão, papaw (Sri Lankan English), Papol \ Guslabu (Tree melon - in Sinhalese ), pawpaw or tree melon, as well as tree melon (木瓜) in Chinese and đu đủ in Vietnamese.
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Noun
1. tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
(synonym) papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, Carica papaya
(hypernym) fruit tree
(member-holonym) Carica, genus Carica
2. large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh
(hypernym) edible fruit
(part-holonym) papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, Carica papaya

n. papaw, papaya, type of tropical fruit

n. papaya, type of tropical fruit