papaw

A slave from Dahome. [West Indies.]

The tree Carica Papaya, or its fruit.

The tree Asimina triloba, or its fruit, native in the United States.

A bushwhacker: with reference to the subsistence or possible subsistence of bushwhackers on the fruit of the papaw.

Also written pawpaw.

Same as papaya, senses 1 and 2.

A tree of the genus Asimina (Asimina triloba), growing in the western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself.

A tree, Carica papaya, of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae and producing dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.

grandfather, especially paternal grandfather