Fruit from Asimina triloba.
1In summer whole families would go to the bottom lands paw-paw gathering.
2Their larder rarely lacked for meat, made tender by paw-paw leaves.
3There's an awful lot of pepsine in a paw-paw, and if you hang, etc., etc.
4Fortunately the steward boy put that paw-paw on the table again for twelve o'clock chop.
5Or the paw-paw of Posey creek;
6Paw-paw and banana-trees were just ripening their fruit, while beneath grew sweet potatoes and yams.
7In addition, paw-paws, bananas, and cocoa-nuts were planted in many other places where it was thought they would thrive.
8She and Jason decide that since they have a month before picking up Paw-Paw, they'll use that time for themselves.
9The 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.
10"The bowl is half of a paw-paw, which, next to that spring itself, is the welcomest thing I've discovered."