papaya

An evergreen tropical American tree (Carica papaya) with a crown of large lobed leaves, widely cultivated for its large yellow edible fruit.

The fruit of this tree, having soft pink to orange flesh and numerous small black seeds.

A former genus of trees, the papaws, of the order Passifloraceæ, now included in Carica. See Carica and papaw.

[lowercase] A tree of this genus.

A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreæ; called also papaw and pawpaw. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender.

The fruit of the papaya tree; it is a dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled. The fruit contains papain, a protease.

A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit

The fruit of this tree.

tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit

large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh