Usually means: Tropical fruit, custard-like flavor.
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  1. pawpaw: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pawpaw: Merriam-Webster
  3. pawpaw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pawpaw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pawpaw: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pawpaw: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pawpaw, pawpaw: Wordnik
  8. pawpaw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pawpaw: Wiktionary
  10. pawpaw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pawpaw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pawpaw: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pawpaw: Dictionary.com
  14. pawpaw: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Pawpaw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pawpaw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pawpaw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pawpaw: Rhymezone
  19. Pawpaw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. PAWPAW: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. pawpaw: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pawpaw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pawpaw: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pawpaw: Encyclopedia

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  1. pawpaw: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. pawpaw: Medical dictionary

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  1. Pawpaw: Botanical Name listing of Plants

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  1. pawpaw: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Culinary Cafe (No longer online)

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noun:  Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
noun:  Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
noun:  Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree.
noun:  Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America.
noun:  The fruit of these trees.
noun:  (dialectal or colloquial) Grandfather.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of pawpaw (“grandfather”) [Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:]

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