papaya B2 Topic:Food & Drink US /pəˈpa.ja/ UK /pəˈpaɪ.ə/ See IPA manual Freq #23292 Meanings 1 noun A large, sweet tropical fruit with orange flesh and small black seeds. She sliced a ripe papaya and scooped out the seeds. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a large, sweet tropical... pawpaw More fruit Word family Forms papayas Related forms papain Appears in Phrases (1) See all papaya juice juice made from papaya fruit Noun + noun Etymology AI details Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Possibility a doublet of pawpaw. papáia arw View etymology graph -> Topics Food & Drink External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # papaya **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /pəˈpa.ja/ **IPA (UK):** /pəˈpaɪ.ə/ **Frequency rank:** 23292 ## Meanings 1. A large, sweet tropical fruit with orange flesh and small black seeds. ## Examples - She sliced a ripe papaya and scooped out the seeds. ## Synonyms - fruit - pawpaw ## Related Forms - papain ## Roots and Affixes - Root: papáia ## Etymology Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Possibility a doublet of pawpaw. ## AI Etymology Papaya was borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Possibility a doublet of pawpaw. Modern senses include a large, sweet tropical fruit with orange flesh and small black seeds. The wider word family includes related forms such as papain. ## Topics - Food & Drink markdown