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Definitions: Cantaloupe |
CantaloupeNoun1. A variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh. 2. The fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cantaloupe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Etymology: Cantaloupe \Can"ta*loupe\, noun. [French expression cantaloup, Italian cantalupo, so called from the caste of Cantalupo, in the Marca d'Ancona, in Italy, where they were first grown in Europe, from seed said to have been imported from Armenia.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CantaloupeSynonyms: cantaloup (n), cantaloupe vine (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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| ITIS 22362 2002-09-03 |
A Cantaloupe (Cucumis melo, or Cucumis melo reticulatus), also spelled cantaloup, also called muskmelon and rockmelon, is a variety of round melon with firm, orange, moderately-sweet flesh and a reticulated beige to light-brown rind. Varieties with redder and yellower flesh exist, but are uncommon, and are not considered to be as flavorful as the more common orange variety. Cantaloupes belong to family Cucurbitaceae, which includes nearly all melons and squasheses. Cantaloupes may range in size from 7-12 cm in diameter, but typically exceed 12 cm in diameter. Specimens larger than 20 cm and weighing several pounds have been recorded. Like all melons, cantaloupes grown best in sandy, well-aereated, well-watered soil that is free of encroaching weeds.
For commercial plantings, one hive per acre is the minimum recommendation by the US Department of Agriculture for pollination. Good pollination is important, not only for the number of fruits produced, but for the sugar content of these fruits.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cantaloupe."
Crosswords: Cantaloupe |
| English words defined with "cantaloupe": cantaloupe vine. (references) |
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Screenplays | Who're you calling a cantaloupe, you melon head? (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn) Like a baseball the size of a cantaloupe in your head. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
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 | (2) color slides show different quantities of cantaloupe melons. (1) whole melon next to a cantaloupe sliced in half, (1) wedge of cantaloupe melon.Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | A brown-beige-white plate sits on a sand-colored table. On the plate is cottage cheese, strawberries, kiwi fruit, cantaloupe, orange slices and rasberries. Next to the plate are 2 slices of dark bread and a multicolored napkin and a fork. There is a glass of iced tea in the background with lemon garnish.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | An employee of the Joseph Fields Farm, shows Dwayne Mangum, NRCS District Conservationist, cuttings of a few of the crops such as cantaloupe, collards, tomatoes, and watermelon grown on the farm. Half of the farm's crops are propagated in the greenhouse.Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Cantaloupe.Credit: USDA. |
 | Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Capped cantaloupe. Imperial Valley, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Irrigator in brushed and capped cantaloupe field. Imperial Valley, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. The young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. The laborers' wages are thirty cents an hour. I.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cantaloupe field and ranch house. Imperial Valley, California. Desert agriculture on the Mexican border. Large-scale corporation farming, Mexican labor.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Food. Cantaloupe.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Got main bearings big as a cantaloupe. |
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Health | During ragweed pollination season, these people sometimes find that when they try to eat melons, particularly cantaloupe, they have itching in their mouth and they simply cannot eat the melon. (references) | |
Economic History | Guatemala | Fruit seeds include cantaloupe, melon and watermelon. (references) |
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| "Cantaloupe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Cantaloupe" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "cantaloupe": cantaloupe vine. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cantaloupe | 280 |
agriculture cantaloupe | 108 |
candy cantaloupe | 73 |
growing cantaloupe | 51 |
cantaloupe company list | 40 |
calorie cantaloupe | 28 |
cantaloupe importer | 25 |
cantaloupe nutrition | 18 |
cantaloupe seller | 17 |
sister cantaloupe | 16 |
cantaloupe recipe | 16 |
cantaloupe grow | 14 |
cantaloupe soup | 12 |
cantaloupe picture | 11 |
cantaloupe plant | 11 |
cantaloupe island | 11 |
cantaloupe nutritional value | 8 |
cantaloupe seed | 7 |
cantaloupe melon | 6 |
cantaloupe planting | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cantaloupe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pjepër (capsicum, melon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | القاوون, البطيخ الأصفر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пъпеш (melon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ananasový meloun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گرمک , طالبی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cantaloup (cantaloup, cantaloup melon, rock cantaloup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Warzenmelone (cantaloup melon, rock cantaloup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πεπονάκι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אבטיח צ"וב (muskmelon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kantalup dinnye. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | semangka (watermelon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cantalupo (cantaloup), zatta (cantaloup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | キャリア組 (base, calibration, camp, camp in, camp site, camper, camper-van, campfire, camping, campus, campus shoes, campus wear, cancel, canceler, canceller, cancer, candle, candle service, candlestick, candy, canter, canvas, career bureaucrats, carol, carriage, mobile home, model featured in an advertising campaign, RV), カンジダ膣炎 (border, Cambodia, Cambrian, campaign, camphor, candidal vaginitis, cantabile, cantata, canvas, canzone, cedilla, cheat, comma, company, company economist, company magazine, company paper, company union, conversation, country, country and western, country club, country music, country risk, country wear, cunning, fund raising, Kant, school, torch, vaginal yeast infection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | キャンタロープ , カンタループ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | antaloupecay cantalupo, espécie de melão. (various references) мускусная дыня (cantaloup). (various references) sespansepeke. (various references) vrsta dinje (honeydew). (various references) cantalupo (cantaloup), melo/n, melón cantalupo. (various references) cantaloupmelon. (various references) kavun (cantaloup, melon, musk melon, muskmelon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "cantaloupe": cantaloupes. (additional references) | |
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"Cantaloupe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cantaleupe, cantaloop, cantalope, Cantaluppi, Canteloupe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cantaloupe" (pronounced ka"ntulō'p) |
| 7 | -a" n t u l ō' p | antelope. |
| 4 | -u l ō' p | envelope. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-n-o-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cantaloup. | |
-2 letters: canulate, conepatl, copulate, lacunate, oceanaut, placenta, tenacula. | |
-3 letters: apnoeal, apolune, canulae, capelan, cleanup, copulae, couplet, lactean, lactone, lacunae, noctule, octuple, opulent, outleap, outpace, outplan, peacoat, placate, planate, platane, plateau, polecat, polenta. | |
-4 letters: acetal, actual, acuate, anlace, apneal, apnoea, atonal, canape, canola, cantle, canula, caplet, capote, captan, catalo, catena, catnap, cental, copula, coteau, couple, culpae, cuneal, cupola, eluant, etalon, lacuna, lacune, lanate, lancet, launce, lepton, locate, loupen, lucent, lunate, octane, palace, palate, peanut, pelota, penult, placet, planet, platan, platen, pluton, pounce, tapalo, teacup, teopan, toecap, tolane, toucan, tupelo, unlace. | |
-5 letters: aceta, acute, alane, alant, alate, alone, anole, antae, apace, apnea, atone, canal, canoe, canto, capon, caput, cento, centu, clapt, clean, cleat, clept, clone, clout, coala, coapt, conte, copal, copen, cotan, count, coupe, culet, culpa, cupel, eclat, enact, epact, lance, laten, lauan, leant, leapt, lento, lepta, letup, loupe, lunet, lutea, natal, netop, nopal, notal, oaten, ocean, octal, octan, ounce, paean, paeon, palea, palet, panel, panto, paten, pecan, pelon, penal, petal, place, plane, plant, plate, pleat, plena, ponce, poult, punto, puton, talon, taupe, tepal, tolan, tonal, ulnae, ulpan, unapt, uncap, uncle, unlet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-n-o-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cantaloupes. | |
+3 letters: encapsulation. | |
+4 letters: encapsulations, nonspectacular, recapitulation. | |
+5 letters: antispeculation, neuropathically, nonencapsulated, recapitulations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6E 74 61 6C 6F 75 70 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -. - .- .-.. --- ..- .--. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101111 01110101 01110000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a n t a l o u p e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006E 0074 0061 006C 006F 0075 0070 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678086677881878271 |
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