Pawpaw

Quick meaning: Pawpaw is a noun meaning Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:.

Meaning

Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:.

More Meanings

1. The fruit of these trees.
2. (dialectal or colloquial) Grandfather.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• pawpaws
• paw-paw

Synonyms for pawpaw

Depending on context, synonyms include peepaw, pepaw, bandango, papaw, papaya.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include papaw, papaya, asimina, paw-paw, peewah, pappaw.

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