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papaya juice

papaya juice

1 1.0
A drink made by blending ripe papaya fruit
  • noun
  • /pəˈpaɪə dʒuːs/
translation icon : jugo de papaya
  • I enjoyed a refreshing glass of papaya juice at the beach.

Examples

  • The smoothie was made with papaya juice, bananas, and yogurt.

  • For breakfast, I usually drink papaya juice along with my toast.

  • I got the papaya juice you asked for.

    Reign Over Me (2007)

  • How about that papaya juice?

    One Night Stand (1997)

  • Odette patted my bottom; the cook promised me a large glass of fresh papaya juice.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • On into town, signs rose up at each side of the road, locally made hand-lettered signs for pecans, papaya juice, Vidalia onions—the original.

    Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

fruit juice
vspapaya juice
12 1.0

A drink you get by squeezing fresh fruit

is made by extracting or blending the flesh of a single tropical plant

Surface Forms

papaya juice singular
papaya juices plural

Morphology

papaya + juice

The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'papaya' (the fruit) + 'juice' (liquid from a plant), following the common noun-noun compounding pattern for fruit-derived beverages. This is a productive, cross-linguistically common construction, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand 'papaya juice' as the beverage made from papaya.

Etymology

The noun papaya juice comes from making juice from the soft, sweet fruit papaya. People mash or blend the orange flesh to get a drink, so papaya juice means the liquid made from papayas.