Associations to the word «Papaya»

Wiktionary

PAPAYA, noun. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
PAPAYA, noun. The fruit of this tree.

Dictionary definition

PAPAYA, noun. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
PAPAYA, noun. Large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats