Word of the Day:
papaya
What It Means
A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
The fruit of this tree.
An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.
Papaya in Context
“It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink, that made it unbearable.”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Doublet of pawpaw.
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