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Persian melon

American  

noun

  1. a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.

  2. the plant bearing this fruit.


Persian melon British  

noun

  1. another name for winter melon

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 Walden, J. H.

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