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papaya

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noun/pəˈpaɪ.ə//pəˈpɑː.jə/
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    The fruit of this tree.

    • It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink, that made it unbearable.
  3. 3

    An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

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