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pawpaws

pawpaws is the plural of pawpaw.

Meaning of pawpaw

Noun (1)

pawpaw (plural pawpaws)

  1. Any member of the genus Asimina of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
    • 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.[2015, Andrew Moore, Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 1
  2. (Australia) Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree.
    Synonyms:
    papaya
  3. Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America.
    • Xavier sliced the pawpaw in half, emptying the tiny black seeds over the veranda wall.2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 254
  4. The fruit itself of such trees.

Noun (2)

pawpaw (plural pawpaws)

  1. (colloquial, dialectal) Grandfather.
    Synonyms:
    peepaw, pepaw

Noun capitalized: Pawpaws

Pawpaws

  1. (plural) plural of Pawpaw

Phrases with pawpaws

Questions about pawpaws

What is pawpaws the plural of?
Pawpaws is the plural of pawpaw.
What part of speech is pawpaws?
Pawpaws is a noun.

Words near pawpaws in the dictionary

  1. pawnticket
  2. pawntickets
  3. pawpad
  4. pawpads
  5. pawpaw
  6. pawpaws
  7. pawprint
  8. pawprints
  9. pawrent
  10. pawrents
  11. paws

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