Avocado vs. Papaya — What's the Difference?

The avocado (Persea americana), a tree likely originating from south-central Mexico, is classified as a member of the flowering plant family Lauraceae. The fruit of the plant, also called an avocado (or avocado pear or alligator pear), is botanically a large berry containing a single large seed.

The papaya (, US: ) (from Carib via Spanish), papaw, () or pawpaw () is the plant Carica papaya, one of the 22 accepted species in the genus Carica of the family Caricaceae. Its origin is in the tropics of the Americas, perhaps from Central America and southern Mexico.

A pear-shaped fruit with a rough leathery skin and smooth, oily edible flesh

An evergreen tropical American tree (Carica papaya) with a crown of large lobed leaves, widely cultivated for its large yellow edible fruit.

The tropical evergreen tree that bears the avocado, native to Central America and widely cultivated elsewhere.

The fruit of this tree, having soft pink to orange flesh and numerous small black seeds. In both senses also called pawpaw.

A tropical American tree (Persea americana) having oval or pear-shaped fruit with leathery skin, yellowish-green flesh, and a large seed.

A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.

The edible fruit of this tree. Also called alligator pear, avocado pear.

The fruit of this tree.

A dull green.

An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.

A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreæ; 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.

The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.

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.

A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado.

Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit

Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

Large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; - called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.

A pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed

Tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits

Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado