papaveraceous (papa ver as hi us)

[ whether in the leaf or apple. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vii. 7. papaw (pa-pa'), n. [ NL.) papaya, a name of Malabar origin.] 1. The tree Papaya, or its fruit. The papaw is native in South America, but now widely diffused throughout the tropics, Its height is about 20 feet, and its deeply seven-lobed leaves are 2 feet in diameter and borne on footstalks 2 feet long. The fruit is 10 inches long, commonly of an oblong form, ribbed, and having a thick fleshy rind. It is sometimes eaten raw or made into a sauce, or when green is boiled as a vegetable and is also pickled. The trunk, leaves, and fruit contain an acrid milky juice (see papain ), which has the property of making quickly tender meat which is boiled with a little of it or wrapped in the leaves, or, as it is claimed, merely hung up among the leaves. The seeds are an efficacious vermifuge. The leaves are saponaceous. Also called melon -tree. 2. The tree Asimina triloba, or its fruit, native in the United States. It is a small tree with lurid flowers appearing with the leaves, which, when grown, are obovate-lanceolate, thin, and rather large. The smooth oblong fruit is 3 or 4 inches long, filled with a sweet pulp in which are embedded the bean-like seeds. 3. A bushwhacker: with reference to the subsistence or po ible subsistence of bushwhackers on the fruit of the papaw. [Mi ouri.] Also written pawpaw : papaw-tree (pa-pa'trē), n. See papaw. Papaya (pa-pa'ya), n. [NL. (A. L. de Ju ieu, 1789), IMG:content-2251.png:[blocks in formation] Papayaceæ (pap-ā-yā'sē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Lindley, 1833), A pair of bellows, a pair of pattens, a toasting-fork, a kettle, a pap - boat , a spoon for the administration of medicine to the refractory, and lastly Mrs. Gamp's umbrella. Dickens , Martin Chuzzlewit, xlix. A cardinal was thilke tide, Which the pap at longe hath desired. Gower, Conf. Amant., I. 254 (Pauli's ed.). Papaver (pā-pā'ver), n. [NL. (Malpighi, 1675), papaver , poppy: see poppy .] A genus of plants, type of the order Papaveraceæ and the tribe Eupapavereæ , characterized by the dehiscence of the roundish capsule by pores under the lid-like summit; the poppy. It includes about 26 species, mainly in temperate or subtropical Asia, Africa, and Europe. They are hairy or glaucous herbs, with a milky juice, usually di ected leaves, buds nodding upon long stalks, and showy red, violet, yellow, or white flowers, generally with two sepals, four petals, and many stamens. See poppy and opium , also cheese bowl , canker, 5 (a), headache , 2, and maw -seed.