Crossword clues for cantaloupe
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cantaloupe \Can"ta*loupe\, n. [F. cantaloup, It. cantalupo, so called from the caste of Cantalupo, in the Marca d'Ancona, in Italy, where they were first grown in Europe, from seed said to have been imported from Armenia.] A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color. [Written also cantaleup.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also cantaloup, 1739, from French, from Italian, from Cantalupo, name of a former Papal summer estate near Rome, where the melons first were grown in Europe after their introduction (supposedly from Armenia). The place name seems to be "singing wolf" and might refer to a spot where wolves gathered, but this might be folk etymology.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Europe English) A type of melon, (taxlink Cucumis melo subsp. cantalupensis subspecies noshow=1); also known as (vern true cantaloupe pedia=1). (From 1739.) 2 (context Australia US English) A type of melon, (taxlink Cucumis melo subsp. reticulatus subspecies noshow=1), with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting; also known as muskmelon or rockmelon. 3 An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.
WordNet
n. a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh [syn: cantaloup, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis]
the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh [syn: cantaloup]
Wikipedia
Cantaloupe (also cantelope, cantaloup, muskmelon (India and the United States), mushmelon, rockmelon, sweet melon, Persian melon, or spanspek (South Africa)) refers to a variety of Cucumis melo, a species in the family Cucurbitaceae.
Cantaloupes range in weight from . Originally, cantaloupe referred only to the non-netted, orange-fleshed melons of Europe. However, in more recent usage, it has come to mean any orange-fleshed melon (C. melo) and is the most popular variety of melon in North America.
Cantaloupe is a fruit.
Cantaloupe may also refer to:
- Cantaloupe Island (album), an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty first released in 1976
- " Cantaloupe Island", a jazz standard composed by Herbie Hancock and recorded on his 1964 album Empyrean Isles
- Cantaloupe Music, a record label
- "Cantaloop" (Flip Fantasia), a 1993 song by Us3
- Joseph Canteloube, the French composer
Usage examples of "cantaloupe".
Library with a piece of root in his jaws and an ancient book balanced on one cantaloupe knee and a map spread before him on the floor.
This was on the eastern edge of Bubembe Regio, a region of so-called cantaloupe terrain, the complex, parquetlike landscape of the type Madeleine had noticed during the landing.
From orbit, the land looks like the surface of a cantaloupe melon, and that gave it its name.
It turned out to be a region of cantaloupe terrain where every depression was filled with nitrogen snow.
She selected a cantaloupe, sniffed it, and then tucked it in her cart.
He laughed and said he knew how to play bego-bego as well as any Na-dene gal as he grabbed her by one big soft cantaloupe and they both flopped back across the bedding.
His hands were huge, capable of englobing a cantaloupe and squeezing it to a pulp, and his powerful arms and oxlike shoulders had been developed through years of unloading ships at the docks in Port Chantay.
Give him a slice of vividly juicy cantaloupe and it turns to bark between his jaws.
Lefty used to stop there with Milton to buy cantaloupes, teaching Milton how to pick a sweet one by looking for tiny punctures left by bees.
Sadly, someone had cut out the photo from the back page, which had run beneath a screaming headline: My Breasts Are Like Dried Cantaloupes, But My Hubby Adores Them.
His calves were the size of cantaloupes and his shoulders reminded Ana of those old Kenny Everett sketches with the U.
A compote of cutup oranges, grapefruit, apples and cantaloupe was attractively arranged in a Tiffany bowl.
She had dressed in a banana-yellow, short-sleeve, lightweight, stretchy-clingy knit sweater, white jeans tailored to prove that the big-ass curse plaguing her family had not yet resized her buttocks from cantaloupes to prize-winning pumpkins, and white athletic shoes with yellow laces to match the sweater.
Row after row, in every direction, plants were severed from their roots, the wet fruit of the cracked watermelon, the cantaloupe seeds spilled across the seaweed mulch, all of it mashed and the bright leaves blackened by the heavy tires that continued relentlessly grinding across the land with the determination of an advancing army.
Cameras, lights, and reflectors were all focused on a very fluffy cat the color of an underripe cantaloupe, wearing a cubic zirconium collar.