Meaning of pawpaw | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of pawpaw (“grandfather”).
   alt-of
2. Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
3. Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
4. Grandfather.
   colloquial, dialectal
5. Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree.
6. Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America.
7. The fruit of these trees.

Equivalents

Examples

“Throughout the years it's gone by a lot of names—frost banana, Indiana banana, fetid-bush, bandango, custard apple, prairie banana, poor man's banana—but most of the time it's just been called pawpaw. At first glance⟳, both the fruit and the tree seem out of place⟳ in North America.”

“Xavier sliced the pawpaw in half, emptying the tiny black seeds over the veranda wall.”

“If there were such a thing as an anticapitalist fruit, the pawpaw, commonly foraged in the wild and inherently resistant to commodification, might qualify⟳.”

“She had enjoyed a happy childhood, but her one consistent ambition was to join⟳ her Pawpaw's law firm.”

“Finding Adam playing with his favorite toy truck on the floor beside her prostrate father. Adam had looked up and scampered to her. "Pawpaw's takin' a nap," he'd said. But Talia had known from her father's odd posture that he wasn't napping.”

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