Cucumis melo
can·ta·loupe
also can·ta·loup (kăn′tl-ōp′)n.
1. A variety of melon (Cucumis melo) having a tan rind with netlike ridges and sweet fragrant orange flesh.
2. Any of several other similar melons.
[French cantaloup, from Italian cantalupo (after Cantalupo, a former papal villa near Rome where it was first cultivated in Europe after introduction from Armenia).]
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| Noun | 1. |  cantaloup - a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange fleshcantaloup, cantaloupe - the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh Cucumis melo, muskmelon, sweet melon, sweet melon vine - any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell |
| 2. | cantaloup - the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh muskmelon, sweet melon - the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers cantaloup, cantaloup vine, cantaloupe, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis - a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh |
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cantaloup(e)
n → Honigmelone f, → Buttermelone f
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