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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pəˈpaɪ.ə/, /pəˈpɑːjə/
• (Indic) IPA: /pəˈpɑjɑ/
• 韻: -aɪə, -ɑːjə

名詞

papaya (plural papayas)

1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
2. The fruit of this tree.
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 135:

     It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink, that made it unbearable.

3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

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同意語

• pawpaw (Australia), common term for papaya, but strictly speaking this refers to a different tree/fruit.

派生語

参考

Further reading

• papaya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia