Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An evergreen tropical American tree (Carica papaya) with a crown of large lobed leaves, widely cultivated for its large yellow edible fruit.
- noun The fruit of this tree, having soft pink to orange flesh and numerous small black seeds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A former genus of trees, the papaws, of the order Passifloraceæ, now included in Carica. See
Carica and papaw. - noun [lowercase] A tree of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A tree (
Carica Papaya ) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreæ; called alsopapaw andpawpaw . It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. - noun The fruit of the papaya tree; it is a dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled. The fruit contains papain, a protease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tropical American evergreen tree , Carica papaya, having large, yellow, ediblefruit - noun The fruit of this tree.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- noun large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Anon papaya is a cultured palate some don't like it.
Papaya Banana Smoothie Anjali 2007
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Probably the most popular breakfast fruit in México, papaya is also a favorite licuado ingredient.
Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit 2007
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Probably the most popular breakfast fruit in México, papaya is also a favorite licuado ingredient.
Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit 2007
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Mango works on its own but papaya is massively bland without it.
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But in Cuban Spanish, the word papaya means 'vagina.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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But in Cuban Spanish, the word papaya means 'vagina.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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On the road, Ms. Lo learned to cook with items such as green papaya, which is currently served with duck and cashews at Annisa.
Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops Kitty Greenwald 2011
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For while they lie basking in the sun, without care of theirs, the cocoanut, the breadfruit, the yam, the guava, the banana, and the delicious papaya, which is a compound of a ripe apricot with a Cantaloupe melon, grow and ripen perpetually.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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As I write in 2004, the only other significant engineered U.S. crop is Hawaiian papaya, which is now resistant to a formerly devastating virus disease.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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As I write in 2004, the only other significant engineered U.S. crop is Hawaiian papaya, which is now resistant to a formerly devastating virus disease.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
bilby commented on the word papaya
I shoot WordNET. Now.
December 8, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word papaya
Where would we be without phrases like "huge deeply palmately cleft leaves"? I feel quite aroused.
December 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word papaya
Good grief.
December 8, 2007
bilby commented on the word papaya
After having skinned my bonce on these in the jungles of Asia, I resent WordNET claiming them as American. Besides, when they splitted open on my forehad they were as often red or orange as yellow. The green ones didn't break usually because they were unripe; grated, they make a damn good salad in Cambodia. The leaves are eaten in Asia as a kind of vegetable. They're very bitter and not recommended for pregnant women presumably because of the papain levels.
December 8, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word papaya
Yeah, pregnant women usually have enough papapapapain to look forward to already. ;)
December 8, 2007
sionnach commented on the word papaya
Can fruit really be oblong? I know that the Japanese have genetically engineered cubic grapefruit, for ease of packing. But, in the wild, are there really oblong fruit?
This comment is based on a prior belief that oblong implied a rectilinear aspect, in addition to the 'longer than it is wide' property. Some random google checking would suggest that oblong objects may not necessarily have corners. In which case I fail to understand the difrerence between oblong and oval.
December 8, 2007
bilby commented on the word papaya
I think sionnach and I should go to the market. As friends, mind you, as friends.
December 8, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word papaya
sionnach, I always thought the difference was akin to that between sphere and circle. I could be wrong though. Signed, Too Lazy to Check.
December 8, 2007
pterodactyl commented on the word papaya
I vaguely remember hearing that "papaya" is the longest word you can type with one hand on a Dvorak keyboard, and that this is supposed to be a selling point for Dvorak keyboards.
I also remember hearing that "stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with one hand on a QWERTY keyboard, but that memory is more vague, and probably false.
April 5, 2008
reesetee commented on the word papaya
PT, you may want to check out my Sound of One Hand Typing list. I have "stewardess" on there, but not the plural. And I haven't done a Dvorak keyboard version yet. :-)
April 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word papaya
In my next incarnation as one-armed papaya salesman, it's gonna be Dvorak all the way, baby.
April 5, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word papaya
I have to tell you, my friends.
In my house, we (I, my housemate, my lifemate and any guest) use papaya as a synonym of vagina. Ever cut a papaya in halves?
April 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word papaya
Only to scoop out the seeds. And then?
April 5, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word papaya
Then, either the three of us are all sick, or it resembles something that I named before.
April 5, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word papaya
I think that "papaya" is a perfectly logical euphemism. Even the words sound similar -- they share that "schwa-aye-schwa" vowel pattern.
April 5, 2008
mollusque commented on the word papaya
There are a few English words longer than "stewardesses" that can be typed left-handed: detractresses (13 letters), and tesseradecades, aftercataracts, and sweaterdresses (14 letters).
April 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the word papaya
How about right-handed?
April 6, 2008
mollusque commented on the word papaya
Johnny-jump-up and phyllophyllin.
April 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the word papaya
Thank you! I'll have to add them all to my list.
Edit: Mollusque, I didn't realize you had your own typewriter list--thanks for the reference there! :-)
April 6, 2008
mollusque commented on the word papaya
Pterodactyl, the longest left-handed Dvorak keyboard words I've found are epopoeia, jipijapa, peekapoo, and quiaquia; longest right-handed is crwth.
April 6, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word papaya
Brackets around "schwa-aye-schwa" please, pterodactyl.
January 19, 2011