pepino
a rounded, cone-shaped hill in a karstic area.
Also called melon pear, melon shrub. a Peruvian plant, Solanum muricatum, of the nightshade family, having spiny foliage, bright blue flowers, and edible purple, egg-shaped fruit.
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How to use pepino in a sentence
The pepino (a cucurbitacea) is grown in great abundance in the fields.
By the natives the pepino is, and not altogether unreasonably, believed to be injurious.
She and her husband were prodigious gluttons, and pepino was eventually deposed from his rank on account of his lawless appetite.
What would she have experienced had she known the late Princess Nicoletta, pepino's mother?
Cosmopolis, Complete | Paul BourgetWhen My Lady had called pepino to throw a bucket of water over the designs and freshen them up, their brilliance was startling.
The Admiral | Douglas Sladen
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