carica
- n type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas
- Isidore Einsam is introduced as a veritable carica ture, who with his spade beard and Mittel-European manner looks like "an advertisement for a psychiatrist.
- Yet his Journey to the Moon, despite its preciousness, was an ably fantastic novel, compound of carica ture and philosophy, and the inventive "science" in it anticipated Swift .