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/pəˈpaɪ.ə/ · noun
A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit..
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.
Use papaya when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Papaya means A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit..
Common synonyms include pawpaw, common term for papaya, but strictly speaking this refers to a different tree, fruit.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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