pawpaw

Any of various deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Asimina of the eastern and southeast United States, especially A. triloba, having maroon flowers with three sepals and six petals and fleshy, yellowish-green, edible fruit.

The fruit of any of these plants.

See papaw.

Naughty.

Improper; naughty; indecent; obscene: a nursery word.

Same as papaya.

Grandfather.

An American deciduous tree, Asimina triloba, having edible fruit.

The fruit of this tree.