pawpaw

noun

fruit with yellow flesh

small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit

tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit

Roots

papayapawpaw- · Spanish · papaya, tropical fruit

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