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Cantaloupe

//ˈkæn.tə.loʊp// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:; Cantalupensis Group sensu stricto, with non- or slightly netted rind, also known as true cantaloupe or European cantaloupe, found in the Middle East and Europe. Ireland, UK
  2. 2
    the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh wordnet
  3. 3
    Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:; Reticulatus Group (now merged into Cantalupensis Group), with strongly netted rind, also known as American cantaloupe, muskmelon or rockmelon. Australia, Canada, US

    "Trevor, like an Aussie outbacker, eats snacks and a pickup meal of bread, cantaloupe, olives, mangoes, and melon."

  4. 4
    a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh wordnet
  5. 5
    An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.
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  1. 6
    A woman's breasts, particularly large breasts. plural-normally, slang

    "Distracted by the way that the sudden gust of wind exposed the girl's bare thighs, he tripped on the uneven sidewalk and faceplanted straight into her soft cantaloupes."

Etymology

From French cantaloup, from Italian Cantalupo (a place name), from Italian canto + lupo, literally "howl of the wolf". Named after Cantalupo in Sabina, a former Papal summer estate near Rome, where the melons were first grown after being introduced to Europe.

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