bitter melon

American  

noun

1. balsam pear.

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Example Sentences

These include cinnamon, bitter melon, fenugreek and magnesium.

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2022

I'll round out the meal with a leafy green salad and curried greens, preferably bitter melon or okra.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2022

As the sky turns tangerine, I take my seat inside the dirt-floored theater, beneath a tangle of bitter melon vines, and settle in for a production inspired by Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2021

And, as with my bitter melon experience, eating bitterness can be a brag: How better to prove your connoisseurship than ordering something whose pleasures are either obscure or nonexistent?

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017

At the dinner table, I threw dark looks at Ba over the greens, bitter melon, and pork Ma pushed at me, but he avoided my gaze and kept his eyes moodily on his plate.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu