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PAPAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
Synonyms:
papaw; pawpaw
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("papaw" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("papaw" is a part of...):
Asimina triloba; papaw; papaw tree; pawpaw (small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
Synonyms:
Asimina triloba; papaw; papaw tree; pawpaw
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("papaw" is a kind of...):
custard apple; custard apple tree (any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp)
Meronyms (parts of "papaw"):
papaw; pawpaw (fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples)
Holonyms ("papaw" is a member of...):
Asimina; genus Asimina (pawpaw)