papaya
USpuh-PY-uh/pəˈpaɪə/
Pluralpapayas
- 1A large tropical fruit with sweet, soft flesh and many small seeds inside.
Soft and sweet inside, a bit like a melon.
She cut the papaya in half and scooped out the seeds.
We had fresh papaya with lime for breakfast.
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- 2A tropical tree that grows large, sweet, yellow fruit.
They planted a papaya near the back fence.
The papaya in our yard grew taller than the house.
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- 3A warm orange color, like the flesh of a ripe papaya.
She painted the kitchen walls a soft papaya.
His shirt was a bright papaya that matched the sunset.
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Origin
It comes from Spanish papaya, which came from the Lokono word papáia.