cantaloupe

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The rough skin of the cantaloupe should be thoroughly scrubbed with a vegetable brush, then rinsed and wiped, after which bury the melon in broken ice till serving time; divide into eighths or sixteenths, remove the seeds, reconstruct the melon, and serve surrounded with ice, on a folded napkin, or arranged on a bed of grape leaves.

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  1. noun A variety of melon (Cucumis melo var. reticulatus) having a tan rind with netlike ridges and a sweet fragrant orange flesh.
  2. noun Any of several other related or similar melons.

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  • Those of us who don't know a cantata from a cantaloupe are impressed when the young Mozart effortlessly whips up a stunning variation on a short Salieri piano piece. —  DVD Talk
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  • They are also among the 10 foods most likely to make you Leafy greens, tomatoes and berries: They're packed with vitamins and showcased by nutritionists as healthful For consumers worried about E. coli on their cantaloupe or pesticides on their peaches, there's a new form of alleged assistance on grocery store shelves: bottled washes that promise to remove pesticide —  WN.com - Articles related to Toasting National Chocolate Cupcake Day with hot & cold chocolate drink recipes
  • An inspection of the fire area used to heat the cantaloupe-sized rocks that were taken into the sweat lodge determined it "would have been a legal fire," Doerksen said. —  Statesman - AP Sports
 

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  1. French cantaloup, perhaps from Italian cantalupo (from Cantalupo, a former papal villa near Rome) or from Cantaloup, a village of southern France.
 

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