| PAP | a cross with three crossbars |
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| PAP | belief of the Roman Catholic Church that God protects the Pope from error when he speaks about faith or morality |
| PAP | a sample of secretions and superficial cells of the uterine cervix and uterus |
| PAP | a method of examining stained cells in a cervical smear for early diagnosis of uterine cancer |
| PAP | a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines |
| PAP | type genus of the Papaveraceae |
| PAP | Old World alpine poppy with white or yellow to orange flowers |
| PAP | annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit |
| PAP | showy annual of California with red flowers |
| PAP | California wild poppy with bright red flowers |
| PAP | subarctic perennial poppy of both hemispheres having fragrant white or yellow to orange or peach flowers |
| PAP | commonly cultivated Asiatic perennial poppy having stiff heavily haired leaves and bright scarlet or pink to orange flowers |