Persian melon
Americannoun
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a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.
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the plant bearing this fruit.
noun
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The breakfast was good: orange juice and Persian melon, eggs & bacon, toast and coffee.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are three general classes of musk-melons—the green-fleshed, as the citron and nutmeg; yellow-fleshed, as the cantelope, or long yellow; and Persian melon.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
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