Persian melon

noun

1. a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.
2. the plant bearing this fruit.

Persian melon

noun

1. another name for winter melon

Example Sentences

Cutlets and roast fowls made their appearance, with bottles of Rüdesheimer and Lafitte, followed by a dessert of superb Persian melons, from the southern shore of the Caspian Sea.

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This is an excellent variety, an abundant bearer, ripens early, and exceeds in size any of the Persian melons.

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It is a variety of much excellence, a great bearer, and one of the hardiest of the Persian melons.

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On the contrary, the Persian melons are protected by a skin so thin and delicate, that they are subject to injury from causes that would produce no perceptible effect on the sorts in general cultivation.

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