papaya

名词 n.
/pəˈpaɪ.ə/|/pəˈpɑː.jə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
  2. The fruit of this tree.
    — It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink, that made it unbearable.
  3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

词形变化

papayas plural

词汇关系

近义词
相关词

词源

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Doublet of pawpaw.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary