Crossword clues for muskmelon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muskmelon \Musk"mel`on\, n. [Musk + melon.] (Bot.) The fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant ( Cucumis Melo) of the gourd family, having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon.
Wiktionary
alt. A cantaloupe, a type of melon, (taxlink Cucumis melo subsp. melo subspecies noshow=1) (canteloupe group), with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting. n. A cantaloupe, a type of melon, (taxlink Cucumis melo subsp. melo subspecies noshow=1) (canteloupe group), with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting.
WordNet
n. any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell [syn: sweet melon, sweet melon vine, Cucumis melo]
the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers [syn: sweet melon]
Wikipedia
Muskmelon ( Cucumis melo) is a species of melon that has been developed into many cultivated varieties. These include smooth-skinned varieties such as honeydew, Crenshaw, and casaba, and different netted cultivars ( cantaloupe, Persian melon, and Santa Claus or Christmas melon). The Armenian cucumber is also a variety of muskmelon, but its shape, taste, and culinary uses more closely resemble those of a cucumber. The large number of cultivars in this species approaches that found in wild cabbage, though morphological variation is not as extensive. It is a fruit of a type called pepo.
Muskmelon is native to Iran, Anatolia and Armenia, with a secondary center including northwest India and Afghanistan.
Usage examples of "muskmelon".
Those long webbed fingers, those sharp-pointed teeth filling a mouth that could stretch wide enough to swallow a muskmelon, the feet that slipped from sandals to reveal prehensile toes planned for strangling, that soft unresisting body absorbing the hardest blows like a feather pillow, and then falling in folds over a victim and clogging air passages like an obscene shroud of flabby fat.
Verina came in, uncovering the bowl in which the stewed muskmelon lay.
Fenter Bain liked privacy, and he had built the electrified fence, and the shack disguised as a strawstack, and he had been raising a tiny field of vegetable which he insisted was a special muskmelon, not quite developed for market as yet, it was true.
We had met in the morning wagon-loads of watermelons and muskmelons, on the way to Jonesboro, and Mr.
Leaside, Braemar, Lakeview or Woodvale, where the train ground to a stop and absorbed another quota of smartly dressed men and women bound for the daily toil of an office or shop in the city, all talking in eager, rapid voices of the trout they had caught in the lake last Sunday, or the muskmelons they were setting out, the difference between city and country taxes, and the rising real-estate values of Pinecrest Heights.
Muscles as large as muskmelons bulged up under his coat as he lifted himself.
She had the complexion of a night-blooming lily, dense lips that might have been molded from the meat of muskmelons, a longish nose that in its curl and grace resembled the scroll of a small violin, cheeks and chin whose juxtaposition of delicate bone to carefree baby fat combined the elegance of a racehorse with the robustness of a mule.