Other forms: papayas
A papaya is a tropical fruit with orange flesh and black seeds. A ripe papaya, papaya juice, scoop out the papaya.
It contains an enzyme that breaks down protein, which is why it is used as a meat tenderiser and why it will not set in jelly. The unripe green fruit is cooked as a vegetable in Southeast Asia. In Britain and Australia it is often called pawpaw.
1nounpapayaA tropical fruit with orange flesh and black seeds.
“For breakfast, we had fresh papaya with a squeeze of lime.”
papaya is a fruit.
Spanish papaya comes from an Arawak word for the fruit, brought back from the Caribbean.
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papaya
English, today
papaya
Spanish papaya, from arw papáia. a doublet of pawpaw.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA