Definition of "papaya"

papaya

/pəˈpaɪə/

noun
plural papayas
1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
2. The fruit of this tree.
  Quotations
  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.
  2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 135
3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.