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