pie melonn.
/ˈpʌɪ mɛlən/, U.S. /ˈpaɪ ˌmɛlən/ 1. U.S. A melon used as a filling for pies. Now historical.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > gourd > melon > other types of melon
melopepon1555
muskmelon1573
macock1588
sugar-melon1600
cantaloupe1739
rock cantaloupe1776
rock melon1789
nutmeg melon1811
citron1826
pie melon1857
sweet melon1883
spanspek1886
honeydew1916
pepino1922
Ogen melon1967
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible gourds > water-melon plant > types of
kaffir watermelon1812
citron1826
makatane1833
kaffir melon1835
pie melon1857
tsamma1886
1857 N.-Y. Daily Times (Electronic ed.) 27 Feb. 5/4 Agricultural Items... Cultivation of Tobacco—Planting of Carrots, etc.—Pie-Melons.
1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. vii. 223 We grow large quantities of melons—..rock-melons, Spanish melons, pie-melons and so on.
1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 833 A pie-melon was a kind of gourd raised along the edges of cornfields, and..it produced one of the world's great pies.
2. Any of several cucurbits, esp. (a) New Zealand the fig-leaf gourd, Cucurbita ficifolia; (b) Australian the watermelon, Citrullus lanatus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > gourd > other gourds
anguria1551
christophene1830
turban gourd1884
pie melon1907
1907 Truth (Sydney) 24 Feb. 12/5 The scallywags who would rob a chinkie's pie melon patch deserve nothing better than a seat on an ounce of shot.
1945 Coast to Coast 9 The occasional pie-melons and chokos that constituted the inhabitants' gardens.
1965 Austral. Encycl. III. 140/1 Some introduced cucurbits have become troublesome weeds, notably the..pie melon.
1998 P. Grace Baby No-eyes (1999) xxxvi. 278 Fruit and vegetable shops with..tables of cut and uncut watermelon, rock and pie melon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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