papaya
papaya
Definition
pa·paya (pə pī′ə, -pä′yə)
noun
- a tropical American tree (Carica papaya) of the papaya family, resembling a palm, having a bunch of large leaves at the top, and bearing a large, oblong, yellowish-orange fruit like a melon
- its fruit, eaten raw or cooked, and also valued for its juice
Etymology: Sp < Carib or Arawak name of the fruit
adjective
designating a family (Caricaceae, order Violales) of tropical and subtropical dicotyledonous trees and shrubs
papaya
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- deregulate: The efforts to sequence the papaya genome and deregulate the transgenic papaya will benefit Hawaii in a number of other practical ways.
- eat: For vitamin A the NGO trains villagers to grow and eat papaya, pumpkins, carrots and other yellow vegetables.
- produce: The small farm produces papaya, string beans, dasheen and plantain.
Adjective modifier
- transgenic: The resistance of the transgenic papaya allowed farmers to directly reclaim their farms without first clearing their land of all infected papaya trees.
- fresh: After devouring plates of scrambled eggs, bacon, and fresh papaya we headed off for a tour of the nearby Prospect Plantation.
- green: Mahi mahi wrapped in plantain leaf and served with a salad of palm heart shavings and green papaya was a delicate mix of flavors.
- Hawaiian: However, it cannot be marketed to Japan, which is a major market for the Hawaiian papaya.
- ripe: Perched on your cousin's roof, truths as fast as stars falls like ripe papaya.
- resistant: Virus resistant papaya derived from tissues bombarded with the coat protein gene of papaya ringspot virus.
Modifies a noun
- ringspot: Using mild strain cross protection to manage papaya ringspot virus in Hawaii.
- salad: Menu: Thai green curry with chicken, Thai green papaya salad, Pad Thai with king prawn.
- virus: Using mild strain cross protection to manage papaya ringspot virus in Hawaii.
- fruit: To use: Exfoliating papaya fruit and pineapple juice enzymes easily and gently dissolve away dead surface cells.
- tree: Elephant grass, fern and papaya trees begin to pop up from the rich red soil.
- plant: Thus, efforts were made to develop transgenic papaya plants expressing the CP gene of PRSV.
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