cantaloupe
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈkæntəˌloʊp/
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melón cantalupo
- I sliced a cantaloupe for the fruit salad at the picnic.
- cantaloupe melons
- fresh-cut cantaloupe
- cantaloupe and watermelon
Take Doctor Scott and I got a cantaloupe which is a crazy girl.
- Take Doctor Scott and I got a cantaloupe which is a crazy girl.
- The only flavor that I don't like is cantaloupe.
- The little girl's like she literally the little girl goes to like where the cantaloupe is to wait for her drink.
- You can see there I've got artichoke, beet, beans, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrots, corn, cucumber, and so on all the way down to watermelon.
Examples
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At the farmer's market, I bought a ripe cantaloupe that smelled sweet.
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In addition to tomatoes, she is experimenting with whole and cut apples, cantaloupes, honeydews, and watermelons.
Academic text (1998) -
Can I have a cantaloupe, please?
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I had cantaloupe for lunch.
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And then I'm also going to cut up a cantaloupe and have that on hand.
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Would you like some cantaloupe, because we have a fresh tray going around.
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The cantaloupe looks great.
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I want the cantaloupe.
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They're having a special on cantaloupes at A&P.
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"Pecos grows the sweetest cantaloupe in the whole of Texas," she said.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
A large round or oval fruit with thick skin and soft sweet inside like a watermelon
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3.7
A round fruit with sweet orange flesh like a cantaloupe
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5.3
A sweet, fragrant fruit with orange flesh like a cantaloupe
A round melon with rough tan skin and sweet orange flesh
A type of melon with rough tan skin and sweet orange flesh
A round fruit with sweet, juicy flesh eaten fresh
Compounds
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cantaloupe comes from the name of an Italian village, Cantalupo, where these melons were first grown for European markets. So the fruit kept the place name, and that is why we call this sweet, orange-fleshed melon a cantaloupe.