单词 | mango melon |
释义 | > as lemmasmango melon b. Chiefly U.S. A muskmelon (plant or fruit). Now: spec. (more fully mango melon) a variety of muskmelon, Cucumis melo var. chito, having small fruits especially suitable for pickling or preserving, now also grown for ornament; the fruit of this plant. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > gourd > [noun] > melon > musk melons muskmelon1573 sugar-melon1600 cantaloupe1739 rock melon1789 mango1866 sweet melon1883 spanspek1886 honeydew1916 1866 R. M. Copeland Country Life 37 Hoe carefully the pickle crops of Cucumbers, Mangoes, Peppers, and Martynias. 1949 L. H. Bailey Man. Cultivated Plants (rev. ed.) 955 at Cucumis melo Var. Chito, Naud. (C. chito, Morr.). Mango Melon...Frs. used in the making of preserves and pickles, under the names Mango, Orange Melon, Vegetable Melon. 1989 Encycl. Brit. VII. 1033/3 Chito group [of melons], the mango melons, with fruit usually the size and shape of a lemon or orange, and flesh whitish and cucumber-like. 1995 Nichols Garden Nursery 25/2 (advt.) Vine Peach—‘Mango Melon’..This native American annual vine fruit makes excellent preserves, chutneys and marmalades. < as lemmas |
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