papaya

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

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

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Possibility a doublet of pawpaw.

Pineapples, small oranges, limes, papayas, custard apples, and bananas were in large quantities. — Tales of the Malayan Coast: From Penang to the Philippines, Rounsevelle Wildman
Besides these he provided us with papayas, gourds, vegetables, and all sorts of delicacies to which we had been strangers during our wanderings in the Gara mountains. — Southern Arabia, J. Theodore (James Theodore) Bent
En los puestos de fruta se encuentran las manzanas, los duraznos o melocotones, los higos y las brevas, guindas o cerezas, peras, nísperos, naranjas, mandarinas, limones, limas y toronjas, damascos o albaricoques, ciruelas, uvas negras o blancas, frutillas o fresas, bananas o plátanos, aparte de muchas otras frutas indígenas como la chirimoya, la papaya, la fruta de conde, la guayaba, el zapote, el mamey, el mango, el tamarindo, el guanábano y el aguacate. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson

papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, Carica papaya

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