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单词 papaya tree
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papaya tree
2. More fully papaya tree. A fast-growing tree, Carica papaya (family Caricaceae), which is native to tropical South America and widely cultivated throughout the tropics, and has an unbranched stem, a crown of large palmate leaves, and an acrid milky sap containing proteolytic enzymes such as papain. Cf. pawpaw n. 1b.
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 505 The Papaios will not grow, but male and female together.
1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 437 There you will find a Genuine figure of..Two Platanoide Fig-trees of the Papaia kind.
1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 769/1 A Fig-Tree or a Papey-Tree was..sold.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xvi. 290 Some Papay-trees run up to the heighth of thirty foot.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxvi. 243 Amongst the preserves were the female pappayas, the male bearing no fruit.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 167 Paul was as much surprized, and as sorrowful, at the sight of this large papaya loaded with fruit.
1832 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 82 For thee the wild grape glistens, On sunny knoll and tree, And stoops the slim papaya With yellow fruit for thee.
1874 E. Lear Indian Jrnl. (1953) 57 Bits of palmyra-palm, papaya, and dark clumps of oak-like trees around.
1924 C. Christy Big Game & Pygmies x. 109 In all directions was general havoc, remnants of potato-fields, banana gardens and papai groves.
1966 D. Forbes Heart of Malaya i. 16 There were..groves of papaya and clumps of coco-nut palms beside them.
1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) viii. 202 It had a garden full of plants she had never seen: phoebe nanmu, papayas, and bananas, on grounds covered with green moss.
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