Noun: papaya
| Singular | papaya |
| Plural | papayas |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 135:]
Nouns inflected like papaya
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Doublet of pawpaw. See: Spanish Nouns '
papaya'.