papaya

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Doublet of pawpaw.

1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
2. The fruit of this tree.

   “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.