Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
papaya \pa*pa"ya\, n. [Prob. from the native name in the West
Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw.]
1. (Bot.) A tree ({Carica Papaya}) of tropical America,
belonging to the order {Passiflore[ae]}; 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.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
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.
[1913 Webster + PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
papain
n 1: a proteolytic enzyme obtained from the unripe papaya; used
as a meat tenderizer
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