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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.
..... Click the link for more information. ; 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.
Eat melons to lower your BP by Asian News International
3 Eat a well balanced diet that's rich in potassium - with foods such as meats, poultry and fish, bananas, cantaloupe melon and milk.
Fit tips by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
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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