pawpaw
noun🔊/ˈpɔːpɔː/
🔊/ˈpɔːpɔː/
(British English) (also papaya British and North American English)
a tropical fruit with yellow and green skin, that is orange or red inside with round black seedsTopics Foodc2 Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Spanish and Portuguese papaya, of Carib origin. The change in spelling is unexplained.