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casaba

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ca⋅sa⋅ba

  [kuh-sah-buh]
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–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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ca·sa·ba also cas·sa·ba   (kə-sä'bə)   
n.  A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. Inodorus) having a yellow rind and sweet, whitish flesh.

[After Kasaba (Turgutlu), a city of western Turkey.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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