Pawpaw Synonyms

pôpô
Fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. papaw
  2. papaw tree
  3. asimina-triloba
Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. papaya
  2. papaia
  3. papaya tree
  4. melon tree
  5. carica-papaya
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Pawpaw Sentence Examples

  • Hickory, chestnut, locust, maple, beech, dogwood, and pawpaw are widely distributed.

  • The grape, Ogeechee lime (Nyssa capitata) and pawpaw are also native fruits.

  • Among indigenous trees, shrubs and vines that bear edible fruits or nuts the state has the blackberry, grape, pawpaw, persimmon, plum, crabapple, hickory, chestnut and hazel nut.

  • On the higher elevations the trees are mostly white pine, yellow pine and hemlock, but in the valleys and lower levels are oaks, hickories, maples, elms, birches, locusts, willows, spruces, gums, buckeyes, the chestnut, black walnut, butternut, cedar, ash, linden, poplar, buttonwood, hornbeam, holly, catalpa, magnolia, tulip-tree, Kentucky coffee-tree, sassafras, wild cherry, pawpaw, crab-apple and other species.

  • Among native fruits are the blackberry, raspberry, elderberry, cranberry, wild plum and pawpaw (Asimina triloba).