cantaloupe vine
- noun
- /ˈkæntəˌloʊp vaɪn/
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planta de cantalupo
- He planted a cantaloupe vine last spring, and by summer, it was full of ripe, sweet fruit.
Examples
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Pests can damage the cantaloupe vine and reduce the quality of the melons it produces.
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The cantaloupe vine quickly spread across the garden bed, its leaves shading the soil beneath.
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The cantaloupe vine grows rapidly in warm weather.
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I planted several cantaloupe vines in my garden.
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He planted a cantaloupe vine last spring, and by summer, it was full of ripe, sweet fruit.
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Pests can damage the cantaloupe vine and reduce the quality of the melons it produces.
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The cantaloupe vine quickly spread across the garden bed, its leaves shading the soil beneath.
Synonyms
A climbing plant that grows round melons with orange flesh
A type of melon with rough tan skin and sweet orange flesh
A vine that makes sweet melons like cantaloupe or honeydew
A vine that grows sweet melons with a netted rind, like cantaloupe
A climbing plant that grows melons like watermelons or cantaloupes
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Morphology
The meaning 'a vine that produces cantaloupes' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'cantaloupe' (the melon) with 'vine' (a climbing plant). This straightforward noun–noun compound follows productive word-formation patterns found in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Cantaloupe vine names the plant that grows sweet cantaloupe fruit on a long, spreading vine. The word cantaloupe may come from a town in Italy called 'Cantalupo', where people once grew these melons for kings, so the name came to mean both the fruit and the plant.
