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n. - Fruit with yellow flesh; Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit; Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.

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  • It is called pawpaw by the natives, who regard it highly for the sake of its one peculiar virtue.
  • And it's thoroughly confusing, because "pawpaw" also happens to be the name
  • The children were in charge of making the ice cream in flavors such as pawpaw, blueberry and blackberry.
  • Readers will learn how to prune and train their fruit trees as well as how to grow unusual hardy ones, such as pawpaw and bananas.
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