Crossword clues for casaba
casaba
- Melon variety
- Yellow fruit
- Yellow melon
- Type of melon
- Cantaloupe kin
- Cantaloupe cousin
- Sweet dessert
- Pale green melon
- Kind of melon
- Fruit named for a Turkish town
- Cantaloupe relative
- Yellow winter melon
- Possible smoothie ingredient
- Melon with a long shelf life
- Honeydew relative
- Honeydew cousin
- Fruit with a yellow rind
- Honeydew kin
- Winter melon
- Melon originally from Turkey
- Yellow-skinned fruit
- Fruit named for a city in Turkey
- Melon type
- Wrinkly-skinned fruit
- Honeydew alternative
- Fruit named after a town in Turkey
- Certain melon
- Fruit with yellow skin
- Yellow-skinned melon
- Bright yellow fruit
- Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh
- Wrinkled melon
- Variety of melon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
casaba \casaba\ n. a winter melon having a yellowish rind; -- called also casaba melon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889, from Kasaba, old name of Turgutlu, in Aegean Turkey, whence the melons were imported to U.S. The old name is literally "the town."
Wiktionary
n. A variety of melon.
WordNet
n. melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh [syn: casaba melon]
Usage examples of "casaba".
You will marry the queen and have a son with a nose like a casaba melon.
Private shows with big dogs and tiny gentlemen and women with breasts as big as casaba melons.
With each breath she took she could smell the ripe casaba melons displayed on wooden tables made of old crates.
Standing there in a white T-shirt and a Casaba baseball cap, he felt like a whitebread turkey in the middle of Harlem.
There was a louder sound, what you might hear if you drop an overripe casaba melon onto a tile floor.
He knows this shorty-short skirt, these big casaba boobs, they drive a real woman wild.
But what she hits me with back of the head is not an apple, or a peach, or a rutabaga, or a cabbage, or even a casaba melon, but a brickbat that the wop has on his cart to weight down the paper sacks in which he sells his goods.
At the head of the table, Mason Lord continued to eat his casaba melon, not missing a beat.
Her flesh looked like the meat of a casaba melon in the winter….
There'll be tangerines too, and casaba melons, honeydews, filet of Dover sole, baked Alaska, and cockles and mussels.