What does paw paw mean?
Paw paw means Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:.
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/ˈpɔːpɔː/ · noun
Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:.
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.
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Paw paw means Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:.
Common synonyms include peepaw, pepaw, bandango, custard apple.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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