cantaloupe
English
Etymology
From French cantaloup, from Italian Cantalupo (a place name), after a former Papal summer estate near Rome, where the melons were first grown after being introduced to Europe.[1]
Noun
cantaloupe (plural cantaloupes)
- A melon of species Cucumis melo subsp. melo with sweet orange flesh, with numerous cultivars in several cultivar groups.
- An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.
- cantaloupe colour:
Translations
melon
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References
- “cantaloupe” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
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