Definition of Melongenes

1. Noun. (plural of melongene) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Melongenes

1. melongene [n] - See also: melongene

Lexicographical Neighbors of Melongenes

melomania
melomaniac
melomaniacs
melomelia
melon
melon-headed
melon-seed body
melon ball
melon ball scooper
melon ball scoopers
melon baller
melon head
melon tree
melon vine
melongene
melongenes (current term)
melonite
melonlike
melonoplasty
melons
melophobia
meloplastic
meloplasties
meloplasty
melopoeia
melopoeias
melorheostosis
melosa
melosalgia

Literary usage of Melongenes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World's Food Resources by Joseph Russell Smith (1919)
"... melongenes, cassava, and farine. For two meals a day boiled vegetables, together with salt fish or meat, are served. The other meal consists of ..."

2. Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn (1890)
"... with a peel prickly and knobby as the skin of a horned toad; but they stew exquisitely. And melongenes, or egg-plants; and palmiste- pith, ..."

3. Catalogue de la bibliothèque scientifique de MM. de Jussieu: dont la vente by Adrien de Jussieu, Bernard de Jussieu (1857)
"2999. Traité des melons, par Jacques Pons, Lyon, 1680, in-12, br., rogn. 3000. Végétaux comestibles, cultivés en 1826. = Matthews, melongenes. 1826. ..."

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