papaya (pəpī`ə), soft-stemmed tree (Carica papaya) of tropical America resembling a palm with a crown of palmately lobed leaves. It is cultivated for its melonlike yellow fruits eaten raw or cooked and, more recently, for the juice which has become a commercial item. The juice contains the enzyme papain, somewhat similar to pepsin and digestant in action; the enzyme is used in commercial meat tenderizers. The papaya is also called melon tree and pawpaw. In the Caribbean area the fruit is called fruta bomba. Several other Andean species, as well as the genus Jacartia, also have edible fruits. The papaya is classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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papaya

Large palmlike plant (Carica papaya; family Caricaceae), cultivated throughout the tropics and warm subtropics, and its succulent juicy fruit. A popular breakfast fruit in many countries, it is also used in salads, pies, sherbets, juices, and confections. The juice of the unripe fruit contain an enzyme that is useful in various remedies for indigestion and in meat tenderizers.

papaya

a Caribbean evergreen tree, Carica papaya, with a crown of large dissected leaves and large green hanging fruit: family Caricaceae

Papaya

(Carica papaya), a fruit tree of the family Papayaceae (Caricaceae). Five to seven large fingerlike leaves on long stems are attached in bunches at the top of a short (4-8 m) branchless trunk. The dioecious blossoms are yellowish white. The stamens are in the racemes, and the pistils, which grow singly, are in the axil. The flowers are either diclinous or hermaphroditic. Although the papaya grows rapidly without special soils, its life span is short and it cannot survive frost. The papaya is cultivated in the tropics; a wild counterpart is not known. Its fruit, which resembles a melon, is used for food, and its milky juice is used to make the enzyme papain.

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Siniagin, I. I.Tropicheskoe zemledelie. Moscow, 1968.

S. K. CHEREPANOV

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No references found	Introduction Papaya trees tower over John (aka Johnny Papaya) Burns and his wife Natividad's all-organic garden, where they grow over 80% of their food, in place of the typical suburban yard in Sarasota, Florida. Food independence takes on new meaning for this urban Florida couple by Burns, John / Countryside & Small Stock Journal It is highly unlikely that your papaya trees will produce fruit, since the seed you planted, if taken from the typical supermarket variety, are from a papaya that requires a warmer winter climate and higher humidity year-round than we experience here in the Valley. GARDENING; RAIN NEEDED TO WASH HARMFUL SALTS OUT OF SOIL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Work by an international lineup of artists who work with the written word (including Ken Lum, Xu Bing, and Shirin Neshat) promises to explore the unstable relations between language and identity; individual works' ingredients range from long-distance phone calls to mating pigs, touch-sensitive computer screens to papaya trees, the Bible to Mein Kampf. Say What? by Artforum International	Papandreou, Andreas Georgiou Papandreou, George Papandreou, Georgios Papanek, Victor Papanicolaou test Papanicolaou's stains Papanicolaou, George Papanin, Ivan Papanin, Ivan Dmitrievich Papanov, Anatolii Papanov, Anatolii Dmitrievich Papantla Paparegas, Demetres Papaskiri, Ivan Papaskiri, Ivan Georgievich Papatanasiou, Aspasia Papava, Mikhail Papava, Mikhail Grigorevich Papaver Papaver somniferum Papaveraceae Papaverales Papaverine Papaw Papaya papaya trees Papazian, Vagram Papazian, Vagram Kamerovich Papazian, Vartanes PAPD Papeete Papen Papen, Franz Von Paper paper birch paper capacitor paper chase paper chromatography paper clay paper coating paper cutter paper electrochromatography paper electrophoresis Paper Feed Control Character paper felt paper folding paper form paper insulation Paper Machine Paper Machine, Cylinder paper master	papaverine HCl papaverine hydrochloride Papaverous papaw papaw papaw papaw papaw tree papaw tree papaw tree papaw trees papaw trees papaw trees papaws papaws papaws papaya papaya papaya Papaya and Mango Producers and Exporters Association of Ghana papaya family papaya juice Papaya Leaf Distortion Mosaic Virus Papaya Lethal Yellowing Virus Papaya Mild Yellow Leaf Virus Papaya mosaic virus Papaya ringspot virus papaya tree papaya tree papaya tree papaya trees Papayas Papayas Papayas Papaye Peasants Movement Papazian, Vagram Papazian, Vagram Kamerovich Papazian, Vartanes PAPBA Papboat PAPC PAPCE PAPCM PAPCO PAPCPT PaPCV PAPD PAPD PAPDA PAPDI PAPDR Pape Pape Pape Taxi Service Pape Village Pape'ete Pape'ete Papeete Papeete Papeete, French Polynesia - International Tahiti-Faaa Papeete, Tahiti

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Introduction Papaya trees tower over John (aka Johnny Papaya) Burns and his wife Natividad's all-organic garden, where they grow over 80% of their food, in place of the typical suburban yard in Sarasota, Florida.

Food independence takes on new meaning for this urban Florida couple by Burns, John / Countryside & Small Stock Journal

It is highly unlikely that your papaya trees will produce fruit, since the seed you planted, if taken from the typical supermarket variety, are from a papaya that requires a warmer winter climate and higher humidity year-round than we experience here in the Valley.

GARDENING; RAIN NEEDED TO WASH HARMFUL SALTS OUT OF SOIL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Work by an international lineup of artists who work with the written word (including Ken Lum, Xu Bing, and Shirin Neshat) promises to explore the unstable relations between language and identity; individual works' ingredients range from long-distance phone calls to mating pigs, touch-sensitive computer screens to papaya trees, the Bible to Mein Kampf.

Say What? by Artforum International

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