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cantaloupe

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cantaloupe: see gourd gourd , common name for some members of the Cucurbitaceae, a family of plants whose range includes all tropical and subtropical areas and extends into the temperate zones.
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; melon melon, fruit of Cucumis melo, a plant of the family Curcurbitaceae (gourd family) native to Asia and now cultivated extensively in warm regions. There are many varieties, differing in taste, color, and skin texture—e.g.
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cantaloupe, cantaloup
1. a cultivated variety of muskmelon, Cucumis melo cantalupensis, with ribbed warty rind and orange flesh
2. any of several other muskmelons

cantaloupe [′kant·əl‚ōp]
(botany)
The fruit (pepo) ofCucumis malo, a small, distinctly netted, round to oval muskmelon of the family Cucurbitaceae in the order Violales.


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Melons like cantaloupe and watermelon are particularly high in potassium," said Lona Sandon, assistant professor of clinical nutrition at UT Southwestern and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.
3 Eat a well balanced diet that's rich in potassium - with foods such as meats, poultry and fish, bananas, cantaloupe melon and milk.
The US has lifted a more than five-month ban on cantaloupe imports from one of the country's biggest melon farmers, reports AP (Sept.
 
 
 
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