Definition of "papaw tree" []

• Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In the country in which it is supposed to be endemic it is believed that if male animals graze under the papaw tree they become BLASE; but science alleges that the roots and extracted juice possess aphrodisiac properties, and who among us would not rather place credence upon this particular fairy tale of science than the fairy tales of swarthy and illiterate and possibly biassed gentlemen."
• "By common repute the papaw tree has the power of rendering tough meat tender."