noun
tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
• Syn: ↑papaya, ↑papaia, ↑pawpaw, ↑melon tree, ↑Carica papaya
• Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Carica, ↑genus Carica
• Part Meronyms: ↑papaya
Useful english dictionary. 2012.