bitter melon

American  

noun

1. balsam pear.

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Example Sentences

For more tart-leaning fruits, like a bitter melon or even grapefruit, vanilla lends that baking-spice note that mellows acidity and tempers bolder flavors.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2023

These include cinnamon, bitter melon, fenugreek and magnesium.

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2022

Certain herbs may be helpful: bitter melon, fenugreek or nopal cactus could help you maintain normal blood sugar.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2018

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