(n): tree bearing edible fruit
(n): small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
(n): any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp
(n): fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples
(n): edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
Funny--I think I learned it when watching the Disney version of The Jungle Book--the sound track of which, strangely enough, I listened to this morning on my drive to work. Ah, youth....
Pawpaw is a word that I first encountered on the Captain Kangaroo show when I was very young, in the early 1950s. It was found in the context of a traditional folk song called Way Down Yonder in the Pawpaw Patch.