Papaveracee
poppyworts; an order of hypogynous exogens, alliance Ranales. Herbaceous herbs or shrubs, often with milky juice. Poppyworts are narcotic, emetic, purgative, or acridly poisonous. Two thirds of the species are found in Europe, the others in Asia, Africa, Australia, and tropical America.
PAPAW (Carica papaya), a small South American tree of the natural order Passifloracea (formerly made the type of a small family, Papayacex), which has now been introduced into many tropical and subtropical countries.
The fruit is eaten either raw or boiled.
The juice of the fruit and the sap of the tree render tough meat tender, even the exhalations from the tree have this property, and joints of meat, fowls, etc., are hung among its branches to prepare them for the table. The Chamburu of Brazil is remarkable for the extremely acrid and poisonous character of its juice, and the disgusting stercoraceous odor of its flowers. In the United States the name papaw is given a small tree of which, a large oval berry, three inches of the natural order Anonaceæ, the fruit of which, a large oval berry, three inches long, with soft, insipid pulp, is eaten by negroes.
England, France, Germany, Egypt, art in Paris and traveled and lived in born in San Francisco in 1870. Studied art in Paris and traveled and lived in England, France, Germany, Egypt, Mexico and other countries. He was the founder and director and instructor of the Eric Pape School of Art until 1913.
He was a frequent visitor to European art expositions. He also designed many important monuments and illustrated many notable publications. He was a member of the Society of Arts and other associations of artists. of the natural order Anonacex, the fruit