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papaia

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Noun1.papaiapapaia - tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
Carica papaya, melon tree, papaya, papaya tree, pawpaw
papaya - large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh
Carica, genus Carica - type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas
fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit


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And huge, golden melons of the papaia, ready for the eating, globuled directly from the slender- trunked trees not one-tenth the girth of the fruits they bore.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
There will be baked beans Mexican, if I can hammer it into Toyama's head; also, baked papaia with Marquesan honey, and, lastly, a wonderful pie the secret of which Toyama refuses to divulge.
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