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 babe's noise by distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference

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 penetrated were papaia trees burdened with their golden fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Koolau the Leper] Reference

Tehei brought cucumbers and a young papaia tree burdened with splendid fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The High Seat Of Abundance"] Reference

For the rest of the day, on the greater heights, they lay in a lava glen where terraced taro and papaia grew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devils of Fuatino] Reference

The only words in this group that are readily recognizable are grouper, papaw (or papaya, papaia, pawpaw), and yucca.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference

Haku informed him that his aunt and Barbara had already breakfasted, and set before him a reddish sort of cantaloupe which was, he explained in answer to the boy's question, a papaia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House Without a Key]

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 babe's noise by distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bones of Kahekili] Reference

Ma keia hoopauia ana o ua o Ulili ma, manao iho la laua, e hai i na mea huna i papaia ia laua e ko laua haku, nolaila, ua hooko laua i ka laua mea i ohumu ai, aia ma ka Mokuna XVIII, kakou e ike ai.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai] Reference

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 penetrated, were papaia trees burdened with their golden fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Koolau the Leper] Reference

In little clearings grew the wild arrow-root; on stone terraces, filled with soil-scrapings, were the taro-patches and the melons; and in every open space where the sunshine penetrated, were papaia-trees burdened with their golden fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Koolau the Leper] Reference

On the fertile, volcanic soil he had wrested from the jungle and jungle beasts were growing five hundred cocoanut trees, five hundred papaia trees, three hundred mango trees, many breadfruit trees and alligator-pear trees, to say nothing of vines, bushes, and vegetables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

On the fertile volcanic soil he had wrested from the jungle and the jungle beasts were growing five hundred cocoanut trees, five hundred papaia trees, three hundred mango trees, many breadfruit trees and alligator-pear trees, to say nothing of vines, bushes and vegetables.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Nature Man"] Reference

Loanwords with four recognized variant spellings include guacimo, guasima, guacima, huasima (Taino); manioc, manioca, mandioc, mandioca (Tupí); papaw, pawpaw, papaya, papaia.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference