asimina triloba

Questions about asimina triloba

What does asimina triloba mean?

asimina triloba means "small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit".

What is another word for asimina triloba?

Close synonyms include pawpaw, papaw, papaw tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asimina triloba a common word?

asimina triloba is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.