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Definition of Papaya

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

2. Noun. Large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh.

Definition of Papaya

1. Noun. A tropical American evergreen tree, ''Carica papaya'' having large, yellow, edible fruit ¹

2. Noun. The fruit of this tree. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Papaya

1. a melon-like fruit [n -S] : PAPAYAN [adj]

Medical Definition of Papaya

1. The fruit of the papaw (pawpaw), Carica papaya (family Caricaceae), a tree of tropical America; it possesses a proteolytic action and is the source of papain. Synonym: carica. Origin: Sp. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Papaya

paparazzification paparazzo paparchies paparchy papas papaver papaveraceous papaveretum papaverine papaverines

papaverous papavers papaw papaw tree papaws papaya (current term) papaya family papaya juice papaya tree papayan

papayas papayotin papboat papboats pape papejay paper-airplane paper-back book paper-bound

Literary usage of Papaya

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All about Hawaii (1905)
"papaya CULTURE IN HAWAII. general use as a breakfast fruit to which the once ... The following paper on the cultivation of the papaya for the Honolulu ..."

2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1886)
"Carica papaya is the best-known individual of its order, and has excited much interest owing to the presence in its tissues of Papain, an alkaloid or ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"While most commonly used, perhaps, as a breakfast fruit, like the muskmelon in northern countries, the papaya can be prepared in numerous ways. ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1896)
"In an appendix to the Chapter will be found a description of the more important non-basic bitter principles of vegetable origin. Alkaloid of papaya. ..."

5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"In an appendix to the Chapter will be found a description of the more important non-basic bitter principles of vegetable origin. Alkaloid of papaya. ..."

6. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"2. t. 122./. 2 ; Lam. Ш. t. 821. Character the same as of the order. 1099. (1) C. papaya (Linn.:) leaves palmate, 7-partite ; segments oblong, acute, ..."

7. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera, Jerome Beers Thomas (1901)
"Passion Flower Family. Carica papaya, L. NOM. VULG.—papaya, in many Phil, dialects ; papaya, Papato, Eng. USES. ..."

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