Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. Inodorus) having a yellow rind and sweet, whitish flesh.
Wiktionary
- n. A variety of melon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a winter melon having a yellowish rind; -- called also
casaba melon .
WordNet 3.0
- n. melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh
Etymologies
- From Turkish Kasaba, a town in Turkey, now Turgutlu. (Wiktionary)
- After Kasaba (Turgutlu), a city of western Turkey. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“-- The variety of melons known as casaba, or honeydew, melons are a cross between a cucumber and a cantaloupe.”
“Poor ArmandWAH he WISHES he could play with the big boys unfortunatly he has the intellectual capacity of a casaba melon”
“The Doctor said his was similar to casaba melon and pineapple.”
“He's as polished as a casaba melon wrapped in a velour golf towel covered in baby powder.”
“Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," the album opener composed by Jackson, is set up by the syncopated percussion that Jackson, his sister Janet and brother Randy played on a casaba, cowbell and glass bottle and had recorded for the demo version.”
“Oh, how grateful I am that this brilliant actress has never gone under the knife and transformed herself into one of those taut-skinned wrinkle-free cat-eyed robots with tattooed lip liner, teeth as unnaturally white as her patent leather Manolo Blahniks, and casaba melons stuffed down her Danskin.”
“June 20, 2008 at 12:04 pm adn a kantelope, adn ah casaba,adn …..”
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“The women sifting dry casaba work tirelessly just to make a few kwanza.”
“Now that I can truthfully say that my head is swollen like a casaba melon, I'm very disappointed to learn from Ofjoshua that it isn't some kind of mystical Jewish fruit.”
“Jesus' General: My head is swollen like a casaba melon”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘casaba’.
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Gourds & Melons
pumpkin, squash, zucchini, chayote, cocozelle, cucumber, pepo, honeydew, watermelon, cucurbit, loofah, casabanana and 54 more...
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