Noun | 1. | papaya family - trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs Hypericales, order Hypericales, order Parietales, Parietales - a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae Carica, genus Carica - type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas |