Kiwano

[ki-wah-noh]

Trademark.

1. a brand of horned cucumber.

Example Sentences

She further distinguished herself from other vendors by packaging and labeling her more unusual offerings, a godsend to head-scratching grocery store clerks as well as to consumers who might not know how to serve jicama, or how to slice into a kiwano.

Read more on Washington Post

She craved the jelly-meat of the bright yellow horned melon, called “kiwano.”

Read more on Washington Post

Among the plants are bananas, passion fruit, papaya, pomegranate, oranges, kiwis and Kiwano melons.

Read more on Washington Times

The slices of pineapple guava and “baby pineapple” are OK but nothing special, flavorwise; the horned kiwano melons look spectacular but are, as always, utterly insipid; and the rambutan, the hairy cousins of lychees, look weird and are pleasantly sweet.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

Nutrition: A cup of kiwano melon has almost as much protein as one tablespoon of peanut butter, plus vitamin C, iron, potassium and lesser amounts of phosphorous, zinc, magnesium, calcium and copper.

Read more on Washington Post