Definition of Casaba melon

1. Noun. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.

Exact synonyms: Casaba
Generic synonyms: Winter Melon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Casaba Melon

caryophylliids
caryophyllin
caryophylloid dicot family
caryophylloid dicot genus
caryophyllous
caryophyllus
caryopilite
caryopses
caryopsides
caryopsis
caryotheca
caryotin
caryotins
casa
casaba
casaba melon (current term)
casabas
casal
casamino acid
casamino acids
casas
casava
casavas
casbah
casbahs
casbene synthetase
cascabel
cascabels
cascable
cascables

Literary usage of Casaba melon

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

1. Mrs. Norton's Cook-book: Selecting, Cooking, and Serving for the Home Table by Jeanette Young Norton (1917)
"... Casaba Salad Take a casaba melon, now procurable at nearly all fruit stands, and cut it in half; scoop out the inside by teaspoons and place them on ice ..."

2. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1882)
"... and leave the ground in better condition than it was possible to do if the plants were in hills. He knew the casaba melon when a boy. ..."

3. Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis Bail Pearson (1917)
"If I feel in the mood for an orange I want an orange, even if my neighbor has a casaba melon. So, if I want my "Middlemarch," I'm quite eager for that book, ..."

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