Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See honeydew melon.
Wiktionary
- n. A vine of the genus Benincasa cultivated throughout Asia.
- n. A green, fuzzy melon fruit taken from this vine that has sweet white flesh.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell
- n. the fruit of the winter melon vine; a green melon with pale green to orange flesh that keeps well
Etymologies
- Translation of Chinese (Mandarin) dōngguā : dōng, winter + guā, melon.
Examples
“Cold winter melon soup, gosling salad with raspberry vinegar, a nice sweetbread and truffles teaser, pike and crayfish quenelles, blackened chicken with ze leetle tiny pink peppercorns, the always chi-chi pasta pesto, of course, and to top it off, lightly baked goat cheese and a daring cucumber-pineapple sorbet.”
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