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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope