papaya

Definitions

1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
2. The fruit of this tree.
3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

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Examples

“It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have⟳ seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink⟳, that made it unbearable.”

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