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n. - Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.

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  • The mother, a slender hapa-haole (half-white), clad in a loose-flowing holoku of white muslin, hastened away swiftly among the banana and papaia trees to remove the...
  • In little clearings grew the wild arrowroot; on stone terraces, filled with soil scrapings, were the taro patches and the melons; and in every open space where the sunshine...
  • Tehei brought cucumbers and a young papaia tree burdened with splendid fruit.
  • For the rest of the day, on the greater heights, they lay in a lava glen where terraced taro and papaia grew.
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