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Definition of Carica Papaya

Carica Papaya
Papain Pa*pa"in, n. [From Papaw.] (Physiol. Chem.) A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.
Carica Papaya
Papaw Pa*paw", n. [Prob. from the native name in the West Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw.] [Written also pawpaw.] 1. (Bot.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passiflore[ae]. 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. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.

Meaning of Carica Papaya from wikipedia

- The papaya (/pəˈpaɪə/, US: /pəˈpɑːjə/), papaw, (/pəˈpɔː/) or pawpaw (/ˈpɔːpɔː/) is the plant species Carica papaya, one of the 21 accepted species in the...
- O (2009). "Physical and Chemical Composition of Storage-Ripened Papaya (Carica papaya L.) Fruits of Eastern Tanzania". Tanzania Journal of Science. 35:...
- Carica is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caricaceae including the papaya (C. papaya syn. C. peltata, C. posoposa), a widely cultivated fruit...
- also known as papaya proteinase I, is a cysteine protease (EC 3.4.22.2) enzyme present in papaya (Carica papaya) and mountain papaya (Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis)...
- and the family Geminiviridae. PaLCuV causes severe disease in papaya (Carica papaya), but can sometimes infect other crops such as tobacco or tomato. It...
- Look up papaya in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Papaya is a fruit of the plant Carica papaya that is also known as "pawpaw." Papaya may also refer to:...
- cundinamarcensis (syn. Carica pubescens, "mountain papaya".), and Vasconcellea sti****ta (syn. Carica sti****ta, "toronche".).[citation needed] It can grow...
- Chymodiactin) is a proteolytic enzyme isolated from the latex of papaya (Carica papaya). It is a cysteine protease which belongs to the papain-like protease...
- Bangladesh and the Virgin Islands. Larvae bore into the trunks of Ficus carica, Carica papaya, Mangifera indica, and S****a robusta and range of other plants...
- papaw. It probably derives from the Spanish papaya, an American tropical and subtropical fruit (Carica papaya) sometimes also called "papaw", perhaps because...