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Meanings of paw-paw in English

Fruit from Asimina triloba.

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Usage of paw-paw in English
1
In summer whole families would go to the bottom lands paw-paw gathering.
The Trail Book
2
Their larder rarely lacked for meat, made tender by paw-paw leaves.
As It Was in the Beginning
3
There's an awful lot of pepsine in a paw-paw, and if you hang, etc., etc.
Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
4
Fortunately the steward boy put that paw-paw on the table again for twelve o'clock chop.
Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
5
Or the paw-paw of Posey creek;
Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2
6
Paw-paw and banana-trees were just ripening their fruit, while beneath grew sweet potatoes and yams.
Adventure
7
In addition, paw-paws, bananas, and cocoa-nuts were planted in many other places where it was thought they would thrive.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
8
She and Jason decide that since they have a month before picking up Paw-Paw, they'll use that time for themselves.
The new yorker
9
The pantomime is no doubt merely an imitative charm, to enable the men to do to the enemy as the women do to the paw-paws.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
10
"The bowl is half of a paw-paw, which, next to that spring itself, is the welcomest thing I've discovered."
As It Was in the Beginning