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pa·pa·in

n :  a crystallizable protease in the juice of the green fruit of the papaya obtained usu. as a brownish powder and used chiefly as a tenderizer for meat and in medicine as a digestant .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  hy·po·pnea 

 
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