Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun papaw
2 senses of papaw
Sense 1
pawpaw, papaw, papaw tree, Asimina triloba -- (small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit)
=> custard apple, custard apple tree -- (any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp)
Sense 2
papaw, pawpaw -- (fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples)
=> edible fruit -- (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)