noun
papaya
puh-PEYE-uh
noun
1
A tropical fruit tree bearing large, sweet, orange-fleshed fruit, or the fruit itself.
"She sliced a ripe papaya for breakfast."
How to Use Papaya
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA sweet tropical fruit with orange flesh and black seeds, or the tree it grows on.
Easily confused with
pawpaw
Word Forms
papayas plural
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from an Indigenous Caribbean (Lokono) word — a doublet of "pawpaw."