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Crossword-Solution: PAPAW 5 letters, 120 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Papaw n. A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the
order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet
high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed
leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of
making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit,
which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.
Papaw n. A tree of the genus Asimina (A. triloba), growing in the
western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a sweet
edible fruit; also, the fruit itself.

We have 120 clues for the answer “PAPAW”

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"Poor man's banana" 1 answer
Alabama tree 1 answer
Banana's relative. 1 answer
Custard apple cousin 1 answer
Custard apple kin 1 answer
Custard apple tree. 1 answer
East Indian fruit tree 1 answer
Eastern U.S. fruit tree 1 answer
Elongated fruit (Var.) 1 answer
Elongated fruit from a tree 1 answer
Fruit also called a custard apple or prairie banana 1 answer
Fruit also known as a prairie banana 1 answer
Fruit in the custard apple family 1 answer
Fruit in the soursop family 1 answer
Fruit tree with purplish flowers 1 answer
Fruit tree with purplish flowers (var.) 1 answer
Fruit tree with three-petaled flowers 1 answer
Fruit with banana-like pulp. 1 answer
Grandad in a holler 1 answer
Green-skinned melonlike fruit 1 answer
Green-skinned tropical fruit 1 answer
Large edible fruit 1 answer
Large oval fruit 1 answer
Largest fruit that's native to North America 1 answer
Largest indigenous American fruit 1 answer
Melonlike Fruit Aptly named 1 answer
Melonlike fruit apt for this theme 1 answer
Melonlike tropical fruit (Var.) 1 answer
Missouri bushwhacker. 1 answer
N. A. fruit tree 1 answer
N. American fruit. 1 answer
Nickname for a grandfather 1 answer
North American fruit also called a custard apple 1 answer
Oblong Fruit Aptly named 1 answer
Oblong yellow fruit 1 answer
Purple-flowering tree 1 answer
Relative of the custard apple 1 answer
Small, fleshy fruit 1 answer
Sweetsop kin 1 answer
Sweetsop's cousin 1 answer
Tree also called a custard apple 1 answer
Tree of the custard apple family 1 answer
Tree of the custard-apple family 1 answer
Tree of the southeast 1 answer
Tree related to the ylang-ylang 1 answer
Tree with a fleshy fruit 1 answer
Tree with banana-looking fruit 1 answer
Tree with large, oblong leaves 1 answer
Tree with malodorous flowers 1 answer
Tree with oblong leaves 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PAPAW (5)

Those remaining he used as a border for the driveway from the lake, so that from earliest spring her eyes would fall on a procession of colour beginning with catkins and papaw lilies, and running through alders, haws, wild crabs, dogwood, plums, and cherry intermingled with forest saplings and vines bearing scarlet berries in fall and winter.
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1995
Crowded around it were thickets of papaw, wild grape-vines, thorn, dogwood, and red haw, that attracted bug and insect; and just across the old snake fence was a field of mellow mould sloping to the river, that soon would be plowed for corn, turning out numberless big fat grubs.
The Song of the Cardinal Gene Stratton-Porter 1996
Soon after, several papaw trees sprang up, among which was one with female blossoms, that is to say, a fruit-bearing tree.
Paul and Virginia Bernardin de Saint Pierre 2006
Paul was no less over-whelmed and affected at the sight of this great papaw tree, loaded with fruit, than is the traveller when, after a long absence from his own country, he finds his contemporaries no more, but their children, whom he left at the breast, themselves now become fathers of families.
Paul and Virginia Bernardin de Saint Pierre 2006
May nature, which every day destroys the monuments of kingly ambition, multiply in our forests those which testify the beneficence of a poor young girl! At the foot of this papaw tree I was always sure to meet with Paul when he came into our neighbourhood.
Paul and Virginia Bernardin de Saint Pierre 2006

Quotes with PAPAW (3)

To this day, being able to “take advantage” of someone is the measure in my mind of having a parent. For me and Lindsay, the fear of imposing stalked our minds, infecting even the food we ate. We recognized instinctively that many of the people we depended on weren’t supposed to play that role in our lives, so much so that it was one of the first things Lindsay thought of when she learned of Papaw’s death. We were conditioned to feel that we couldn’t really depend on people —…
J.D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
I've known him since dirt was new, Papaw laughed. We go way back... Dawg Papaw, that's a long time! Mark exclaimed.
Mary Hubbert Jones
Man, I loved The Smiths so much. I thought they looked awesome, and Morrissey had hearing aids like my Papaw.
Ryan Adams
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 104 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).