papaya
IPA: pʌpˈaɪʌ
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "papaya" in Sentences
- Anon papaya is a cultured palate some don't like it.
- But in Cuban Spanish, the word papaya means 'vagina.
- Mango works on its own but papaya is massively bland without it.
- Probably the most popular breakfast fruit in México, papaya is also a favorite licuado ingredient.
- On the road, Ms. Lo learned to cook with items such as green papaya, which is currently served with duck and cashews at Annisa.
- As I write in 2004, the only other significant engineered U.S. crop is Hawaiian papaya, which is now resistant to a formerly devastating virus disease.
- For while they lie basking in the sun, without care of theirs, the cocoanut, the breadfruit, the yam, the guava, the banana, and the delicious papaya, which is a compound of a ripe apricot with a Cantaloupe melon, grow and ripen perpetually.
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