pa·pa·ya /pəˈpaɪə/
 番木瓜


 pa·pa·ya /pəˈpaɪə/ 名詞
 番木瓜,番木瓜汁


 pa·pa·ya n.
 1. Bot. A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreæ; called also papaw and pawpaw.  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.
 2. The fruit of the papaya tree; it is a dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.  The fruit contains papain, a protease.

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 papaya
      n 1: tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply
           palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
           [syn: papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, {Carica
           papaya]
      2: large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh