papaya tree

Questions about papaya tree

What is another word for papaya tree?

It depends which papaya tree you mean. In the sense “tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit”, the synonyms are papaya, papaia, pawpaw, melon tree, Carica papaya. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of papaya tree?

WordNet records no antonym for papaya tree. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for papaya tree come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of papaya tree

• Full entry for papaya treeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for papaya treeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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