Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit.
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Examples for "paw-paw"
Examples for "paw-paw"
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In summer whole families would go to the bottom lands paw-paw gathering.
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Their larder rarely lacked for meat, made tender by paw-paw leaves.
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There's an awful lot of pepsine in a paw-paw, and if you hang, etc., etc.
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Fortunately the steward boy put that paw-paw on the table again for twelve o'clock chop.
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Or the paw-paw of Posey creek;
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This fragrance free balm is filled with aloe vera for hydrating, antioxidant rich pawpaw fruit, and moisturizing olive oil.
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A soft breeze stirs the pawpaw bushes down by the fence row.
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Fearless stripped off a great quantity of bark of the pawpaw tree.
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Tommy Hensor looked up pleadingly to her, holding out the pawpaw apple.
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The pawpaw is native to many of the Western States of the Republic.
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Then he sat down under the shade of a pawpaw-bush and gave orders.
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The pawpaw, too, is a splendid shrub, and in great abundance.
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He leaped the fence, swung me over, and started toward the pawpaw thicket.
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Running to the pawpaw bushes I pulled some big tender leaves.
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She plants vegetables and fruits such as tomatoes, kale and pawpaw.
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One may learn to like this pawpaw, yes, but one must study hard.
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He dreamed the gold was exactly under the little pawpaw-tree.
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The persimmon and pawpaw will undoubtedly both grow at Toronto.
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I thanked goodness I was a fine runner, and started for the pawpaw thicket.
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There I turned to my right and went slower, watching for the pawpaw thicket.
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There, plump pawpaw and watermelon grow, surrounded by coconut palms.
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Edward Fuhlbruegge of Scotch Plains has long tried to grow pawpaw seedlings with no success.