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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024can•ta•loupe or can•ta•loup/ˈkæntəˌloʊp/USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologya melon with a hard green or yellow skin and pale orange or reddish yellow flesh: [countable]We bought two cantaloupes at the grocery store.[uncountable]There was no cantaloupe at the market today.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024can•ta•loupe (kan′tl ōp′),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologya variety of melon, Cucumis melo cantalupensis, of the gourd family, having a hard scaly or warty rind, grown in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
- Plant Biologya muskmelon having a reticulated rind and pale-orange flesh.
Also, can′ta•loup′. - French, allegedly after Cantaluppi, a papal estate near Rome where cultivation of this melon is said to have begun in Europe, though a comparable Italian word is not attested until much later than the French word, and Cantaloup, a village in Languedoc, has also been proposed as the source
- 1730–40
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cantaloupe, cantaloup /ˈkæntəˌluːp/ n - a cultivated variety of muskmelon, Cucumis melo cantalupensis, with ribbed warty rind and orange flesh
- any of several other muskmelons
Etymology: 18th Century: from French, from Cantaluppi, former papal villa near Rome, where it was first cultivated in Europe |