muskmelon

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"An eccentricity of mine And you put salt on your muskmelon, and wanted your eggs opened, and didn't like tomato soup," adds Ruby, like she was repeatin' a lesson Guilty on all three counts," says Mr. Mills I tried to remember," says Ruby, sort of meek Tried!"

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  1. noun Any of several varieties of the melon Cucumis melo, such as the cantaloupe, having fruit characterized by a netted rind and edible flesh with a musky aroma.
  2. noun The fruit of any of these plants.

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  • And so you wind up with two slices of cold garbage-can pizza and a bowl of even colder cantaloupe, pineapple, muskmelon, and kiwi wedges, which you down between bites of pizza. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
  • Eggplant, muskmelon and Brussels sprouts will last five years or more.
  • The "Rugby" ball is shaped like a watermelon, but the other is more like a muskmelon, and it was on this latter kind of a ball that Snuff was rolling around the yard, just like a circus clown Was this what Trouble meant when he said Snuff was rolling?" —  The Curlytops and Their Pets or Uncle Toby's Strange Collection
  • Yer d----d muskmelon (Tom's word for musk) makes ye smell jest like hurt skunks; and ye ar skunks, clar through ter the innards. —  The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • "An eccentricity of mine And you put salt on your muskmelon, and wanted your eggs opened, and didn't like tomato soup," adds Ruby, like she was repeatin' a lesson Guilty on all three counts," says Mr. Mills I tried to remember," says Ruby, sort of meek Tried!" —  Torchy, Private Sec.
 

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  1. Formerly, and still dial., muskmillion; from musk + melon.
 

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/ˈməskmɛlən/
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