papayas
Saypuh-PY-uhz/pəˈpaɪəz/
- 1Plural of papaya.
Vendors stacked papayas in neat pyramids along the roadside stalls.
She sliced two papayas and scooped out their slippery black seeds.
Note
A regular plural, made with the ordinary -s ending because papaya closes on a vowel rather than a hissing sound that would call for -es. It counts whole trees or whole fruits: a row of papayas in an orchard, a crate of papayas at market. The orange color named for the fruit's flesh behaves like other color words and normally stays singular.
papayas is a form of papaya
papaya, noun: The large, yellow, edible fruit produced by the tropical tree Carica papaya, with a central cluster of small seeds. Full entry
- Forms
- papayapapayas plural
- Spelling
- papaya → papayas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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