Pawpaw Definition

pôpô
noun
Any of various deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Asimina of the eastern and southeast United States, especially A. triloba, having maroon flowers with three sepals and six petals and fleshy, yellowish-green, edible fruit.
American Heritage

Papaw.

Webster's New World
The fruit of any of these plants.
American Heritage

Grandfather.

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Other Word Forms of Pawpaw

Noun

Singular:
pawpaw
Plural:
pawpaws

Origin of Pawpaw

  • Via Portuguese and Spanish papaya from Galibi Carib; the reason for the change in spelling is unknown.

    From Wiktionary

  • Originally a variant of papaya

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pawpaw Sentence Examples

  • Hickory, chestnut, locust, maple, beech, dogwood, and pawpaw are widely distributed.

  • The grape, Ogeechee lime (Nyssa capitata) and pawpaw are also native fruits.

  • Among indigenous trees, shrubs and vines that bear edible fruits or nuts the state has the blackberry, grape, pawpaw, persimmon, plum, crabapple, hickory, chestnut and hazel nut.

  • On the higher elevations the trees are mostly white pine, yellow pine and hemlock, but in the valleys and lower levels are oaks, hickories, maples, elms, birches, locusts, willows, spruces, gums, buckeyes, the chestnut, black walnut, butternut, cedar, ash, linden, poplar, buttonwood, hornbeam, holly, catalpa, magnolia, tulip-tree, Kentucky coffee-tree, sassafras, wild cherry, pawpaw, crab-apple and other species.

  • Among native fruits are the blackberry, raspberry, elderberry, cranberry, wild plum and pawpaw (Asimina triloba).

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