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papaya
CEFRB1
/pəˈpaɪ.ə/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A large tropical fruit with sweet orange flesh.
- 02
noun
Extra detailAn orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.
Examples
Between them, India and Brazil produce over half the world's papaya.
Would you like mango, apples and papaya?
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 4
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 1
- Synonyms
- 1
Also pronounced
- /pəˈpɑː.jə/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsThe fruit of this tree.
A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
More examples
In contextRipe papaya smells like vomit.
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.
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Origin
noun
Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Doublet of pawpaw.