Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Muskmelon   /mˈəskmˌɛlən/   Listen
Muskmelon

noun
1.
Any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell.  Synonyms: Cucumis melo, sweet melon, sweet melon vine.
2.
The fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers.  Synonym: sweet melon.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Muskmelon" Quotes from Famous Books



... your muskmelon, and wanted your eggs opened, and didn't like tomato soup," adds Ruby, like ...
— Torchy, Private Sec. • Sewell Ford

... (at which we cut the first watermelon and muskmelon that our garden has grown,) Mr. Thoreau and I walked up the bank of the river, and at a certain point he shouted for his boat. Forthwith a young man paddled it across, and Mr. Thoreau and I voyaged farther up the stream, which soon became more beautiful than any picture, with its dark and ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 • Various

... we cut the first watermelon and muskmelon that our garden has grown,) Mr. Thoreau and I walked up the bank of the river, and at a certain point he shouted for his boat. Forthwith a young man paddled it across, and Mr. Thoreau and I voyaged farther up the stream, which soon became more beautiful than any picture, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 • Various

... Select 1 large muskmelon (not too ripe), cut it in half, remove the seeds with a tablespoon, cut the melon into large pieces, pare off the skin and cut each long piece in two; put the melon pieces in a saucepan, cover with boiling water and boil 5 minutes; take them out with a skimmer and lay ...
— Desserts and Salads • Gesine Lemcke

... streets; and all the world was out for Christmas shopping. As it was one of the seasons for display, everybody was in his best. The women wore bright-coloured taffetas or velvets, over hoops flattened before and behind, muskmelon bonnets or towering hats. They whisked their gowns about, that their satin petticoats be not overlooked. The men wore the cocked hat, heavily laced, and a long coat, usually of light-coloured cloth, with a diminutive ...
— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton



Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com