pawpaw

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:; Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree.
  2. Grandfather. colloquial,dialectal
  3. Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:; Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
  4. Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:; Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America.
  5. The fruit of these trees.
    — Throughout the years it's gone by a lot of names—frost banana, Indiana banana, fetid-bush, bandango, custard apple, prairie banana, poor man's banana—but most of the time it's just been called pawpaw. At first glance, both the fruit and the tree seem out of place in North America.

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
Via Portuguese and Spanish papaya from Lokono papáia; compare also Kari'na kapaja. Doublet of papaya.
Alternatively from Yuchi pahpah.
词源 2
Related to papa, or pa(w) pa(w) (one’s father’s father).
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