pawpaw
- n tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- n small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
- n fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
- The eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye retaliation began: three McCoys were captured by Hatfields under the command of Ellison's brother Devil Anse, tied to a pawpaw bush, and shot to .
- Men had shinnied up cypress, mango and pawpaw trees for a better look; Kikuyu women showed up with their faces and bodies ceremonially daubed with bright paint.
- In some parts of the world the papaya, a tropical tree with melon-like fruit, is also called pawpaw.