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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pawpaw is a noun meaning "tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit". It carries 3 recorded senses.
tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pawpaw come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.