cantaloupe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sweet muskmelon with orange flesh and, especially in North America, a rough netted rind

   They sliced the ripe cantaloupe and served it cold.

2. 2
   noun

   an orange-pink color resembling the flesh of a cantaloupe

   The room was painted a soft cantaloupe shade.

From French cantaloup and Italian Cantalupo, the name of a former papal estate near Rome where the melons were reportedly cultivated after introduction to Europe. The place name is traditionally analyzed as canto, 'song,' + lupo, 'wolf.'

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