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PAPASHON Bowling
PAPASHON Bowling is a Ukrainian family entertainment chain with ten-pin bowling venues in Kyiv's Retroville, Lviv's Victoria Gardens, and Odesa's City Center malls, offering 12-16 lanes, children's bumper lanes, billiards, cafes, and event hosting.
Papatinho
Papatinho is the stage name of Tiago da Cal Alves, a Brazilian record producer and DJ from Rio de Janeiro known for rap, trap, and funk.
PAPAudit study
PAPAudit (NCT04812938) is a retrospective Italian observational study testing whether clonal TP53 mutations of high-grade serous ovarian cancer can be detected in archival Pap test DNA years before diagnosis, validating the 2020 Paracchini cohort.
Papaver
Papaver (poppies) is a genus of 66 accepted species in Papaveraceae, order Ranunculales, native to temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa. Includes opium poppy P. somniferum, source of morphine and codeine, and common poppy P. rhoeas.
Papaver rhoeas
Papaver rhoeas, the common or corn poppy (Flanders poppy), is an annual Papaveraceae herb with scarlet 7–10 cm flowers, globose capsules, seeds dormant over 80 years, no opium alkaloids, and the World War I remembrance symbol.
Papaver somniferum
Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy or breadseed poppy, is an annual Papaveraceae herb from the western Mediterranean, sole source of opium alkaloids (morphine, codeine, thebaine) and grown for edible poppy seeds; 2n=22, IUCN Least Concern.
Papaveraceae
Papaveraceae, the poppy family (formerly including Fumariaceae), is a Ranunculales eudicot family of about 41-46 genera and roughly 700 species with milky latex, capsule fruits, and over 540 isoquinoline alkaloids, including the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.
Papaverine
Papaverine, a benzylisoquinoline opium alkaloid discovered by Georg Merck in 1848, is a smooth-muscle relaxant and vasodilator (PDE inhibitor) used for vascular spasm and in intracavernosal injection mixtures for erectile dysfunction, without narcotic effects.
Papaya
Papaya (Carica papaya, pawpaw, fruta bomba) is a tropical Caricaceae fruit tree from Mesoamerica with XY/XYh sex chromosomes, papain-rich fruit, and PRSV-resistant transgenic Rainbow cultivars in Hawaii.
Papaya (music)
Papaya, also known as Papaya Club, is an open-air nightclub on Zrće beach near Novalja on Pag, Croatia, founded in 2002 and ranked as high as No. 6 in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs.
Papaya ringspot virus
Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV), a potyvirus with P and W strains, is aphid-transmitted and the most damaging virus of papaya worldwide; Hawaii's industry was saved by the 1998 transgenic Rainbow and SunUp papaya.
Pape & Cheikh
Pape & Cheikh was a Senegalese acoustic guitar duo from Kaolack whose song 'Yatal Gueew' became the anthem of Senegal's 2001 elections; their album Mariama appeared in 2002.
Pape Avenue Cemetery
Pape Avenue Cemetery (Holy Blossom Cemetery, Jews' Cemetery), Toronto's oldest Jewish burial ground, established 1849 by Joseph and Nordheimer; first burial 1850; closed 1930s; administered by Holy Blossom Temple.
Pape Cabral
Pape Cabral, born 2007 in Keur Massar, Senegal, is a French midfielder for AS Monaco; Gambardella 2023 winner, pro debut September 2025, contracted until 2031.
Pape Diouf
Pape Diouf, born Pape Cheikh Diouf in 1973 in Dakar, is a Senegalese mbalax singer who leads La Génération Consciente and broke through with "Partir!" in 2004.
Pape Matar Sarr
Pape Matar Sarr, born 2002 in Senegal, is a midfielder who made over 100 appearances for Tottenham Hotspur, winning the 2025 Europa League, and plays for Senegal.
Pape Wetland Complex
Pape Wetland Complex is a Ramsar site of international importance on Latvia's Baltic Sea coast, covering 51,725 ha around Lake Pape and the Nida raised bog.
Papeete
Papeete, capital of French Polynesia on Tahiti's northwest coast; founded 1818 by William Crook, commune since 1890, population 26,926 (2017), home of the Autonomous Port of Papeete.
Papéis Avulsos
Papéis Avulsos is an 1882 short-story collection by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, his third, which carries the ironic realism of Memórias Póstumas into twelve stories including "O alienista".
Paper
Paper is a thin sheet material made of cellulose fibers drained on a screen, pressed, and dried into a bonded mat, used for writing, printing, and packaging.
Paper analytical device
A paper analytical device (PAD) is a paper test card with twelve reagent lanes that screens pharmaceutical tablets for identity and quality in about seven minutes without power or lab equipment.
Paper and carton nest construction in social wasps
Paper and carton nest construction in social wasps is the building of nests from chewed plant fiber bound with salivary secretion, used by paper wasps, hornets, and yellowjackets.
Paper Boat
Paper Boat, also known as Paper Boat Drinks, is an Indian beverage brand launched in 2013 by Hector Beverages, selling preservative-free traditional drinks like aam panna and jaljeera.
Paper chromatography
Paper chromatography is an analytical technique that separates mixture components on filter paper using a moving solvent. It is a form of partition chromatography.
Paper clip
A paper clip, also known as a gem clip, is a small bent-wire device that holds sheets of paper together by friction and spring pressure without puncturing them.
Paper coating
Paper coating is the application of a pigmented coating color to base paper or paperboard to improve smoothness, gloss, and printing characteristics for uses such as printing and packaging.
Paper Dolls
Paper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera set in the New York modeling world, starring Morgan Fairchild, that aired on ABC from September to December 1984.
Paper Dolls (Australian TV series)
Paper Dolls is a 2023 Australian drama series on Paramount+, created by Ainslie Clouston, following five women who win a reality singing competition and form the girl group Harlow.
Paper fortune teller
Paper fortune teller, also called cootie catcher, chatterbox, or salt cellar, is a traditional origami toy folded from a twice-blintzed square and used in children's fortune-telling games; documented from 1836, worldwide by the 1950s, and widely used in classrooms.
Paper Girl
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America is Beth Macy's 2025 Penguin Press memoir-reportage hybrid about her poor childhood in Urbana, Ohio, and her hometown's decline; a National Book Critics Circle finalist and Obama favorite.