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pawpaw noun

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Definition

old-fashioned for papaya
(also papaw) US (the fruit of) a type of tree that grows in central and southern parts of the US

(Definition of pawpaw noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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