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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Cutlets and roast fowls made their appearance, with bottles of Rüdesheimer and Lafitte, followed by a dessert of superb Persian melons, from the southern shore of the Caspian Sea.
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This is an excellent variety, an abundant bearer, ripens early, and exceeds in size any of the Persian melons.
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It is a variety of much excellence, a great bearer, and one of the hardiest of the Persian melons.
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On the contrary, the Persian melons are protected by a skin so thin and delicate, that they are subject to injury from causes that would produce no perceptible effect on the sorts in general cultivation.
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