Paw Paw Explained

Paw Paw, Paw paw, or pawpaw may refer to:

Plants and fruits

• Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, commonly known as pawpaws
  • Common pawpaw (Asimina triloba), a temperate fruit tree, native to eastern North America
• Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree
• Mountain paw paw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America

Places

In the United States

• List of lakes named Paw Paw Lake
• Paw Paw, Illinois
• Paw Paw Township, DeKalb County, Illinois
• Paw Paw Township, Wabash County, Indiana
• Paw Paw, Indiana (Miami County)
• Paw Paw Township, Elk County, Kansas
• Paw Paw, Kentucky
• Paw Paw, Michigan
• Paw Paw Township, Michigan
• Paw Paw River, in Michigan
• Paw Paw, Missouri
• Paw Paw, Marion County, West Virginia
• Paw Paw, West Virginia, in Morgan County
• Paw Paw Creek, in Marion County and Monongalia County, West Virginia

Other uses

• Paw Paw High School (disambiguation)
• Paw Paw Railroad (Michigan), a defunct railroad which operated in Van Buren County, Michigan, between 1857 and 1887
• Paw Paw Tunnel, in Maryland
• "paw-paw French", a nickname of the Missouri French

See also

• Pawpawsaurus, or pawpaw Lizard, a dinosaur
• Paw Paws, a television cartoon series
• "pawpaw" may be an affectionate term for a grandfather