Hypertext Webster Gateway: "papaw"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Papaw \Pa*paw"\, n. [Prob. from the native name in the West
Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw.]
[Written also {pawpaw}.]
1. (Bot.) A tree ({Carica Papaya}) of tropical America,
belonging to the order {Passiflore[ae]}. It has a soft,
spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a
tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The
milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of
making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored,
melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or
pickled.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
papaw
n 1: small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong
leaves and fleshy fruit [syn: {pawpaw}, {papaw tree}, {Asimina
triloba}]
2: fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples [syn: {pawpaw}]
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