cantaloupe
Meanings
Plural: cantaloupes
Noun
- a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh
- the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh
- Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:
- Cantalupensis Group sensu stricto, with non- or slightly netted rind, also known as true cantaloupe or European cantaloupe, found in the Middle East and Europe.
- Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:
- Reticulatus Group (now merged into Cantalupensis Group), with strongly netted rind, also known as American cantaloupe, muskmelon or rockmelon.
- An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.
- A woman's breasts, particularly large breasts.
Origin / Etymology
From French cantaloup, from Italian Cantalupo (a place name), from Italian canto + lupo, literally "howl of the wolf".
Named after a former Papal summer estate near Rome, where the melons were first grown after being introduced to Europe.
Scrabble Score: 14
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