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casaba melon

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ca⋅sa⋅ba

[kuh-sah-buh]
–noun
a variety of the winter melon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a wrinkled, yellow rind and sweet, juicy, greenish flesh.
Also, cassaba.
Also called casaba melon.


Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; named after Kassaba (now Turgutlu), town near Izmir, Turkey, which exported it
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casaba melon

noun
melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh [syn: casaba
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