papaya

Collocations

5

ADJ.

delicious, flesh-orange, green, half, ripe

VERB + PAPAYA

can't, contains, eating, gliding, got, looking, make, preparing

PAPAYA + NOUN

home, honey, isn, mango, marketplace, s, salad, t

PREP.

along, in, on, with, with

ADV.

only, only

Definitions

noun

1

A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.

2

The fruit of this tree.

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.

3

An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply pal

papaia
pawpaw

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

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 t

Wiktionary

02

Ripe papaya smells like vomit.

Tatoeba · #483701

03

Would you like mango, apples and papaya?

Tatoeba · #910749

04

Between them, India and Brazil produce over half the world's papaya.

Tatoeba · #4728982

05

Green papaya salad is delicious.

Tatoeba · #8676010

06

That is not papaya salad.

Tatoeba · #8980190