Meaning

3 senses
  1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.

    tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit

  2. The fruit of this tree.

    Papaya

    папа́йяpapájja, папа́йяpapájja

    папа́йяpapájja

  3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

    large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

Examples

19 sentences
  1. This papaya salad isn’t very delicious.

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  2. Check whether the papayas are ripe.

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  3. There are papayas in the basket.

    deIm Korb sind Papayas.

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  4. There's a papaya on the table.

    ruНа столе лежит папайя.

    deAuf dem Tisch liegt eine Papaya.

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  5. Would you like mango, apples and papaya?

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Translations

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Origin

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Doublet of pawpaw.

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Doublet of pawpaw.

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Forms

plural: papayas
Singularpapaya
Pluralpapayas

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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