horned melon

English

Etymology

From horned +‎ melon.

Pronunciation

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Noun

horned melon (countable and uncountable, plural horned melons)

1. A plant of the species Cucumis metulifer, bearing a cucumber-like fruit.
2. The fruit of the horned melon plant, having yellow-orange skin and lime green, jelly-like flesh with a tart taste, and texture similar to a cucumber.

Translations

plant of the species Cucumis metulifer

• Arabic: كيوانو
• Azerbaijani: kivano
• Bulgarian: кивано m (kivano)
• Catalan: cogombret banyut m, kiwano m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 刺角瓜 (ci³ gok³ gwaa¹)

  Mandarin: 刺角瓜 (cìjiǎoguā)

• Czech: kiwano m
• Dutch: gehoornde meloen (nl) m
• Esperanto: pikilhava kukumo
• Finnish: kivakurkku (fi)
• French: kiwano (fr) m
• Galician: kiwano (gl), melón cornudo (gl)
• German: Horngurke m
• Hebrew: הארן מעלאנע
• Indonesian: melon tanduk
• Italian: kiwano m
• Japanese: ツノニガウリ (tsuno nigauri)
• Malayalam: മുള്ളൻ കക്കിരി (muḷḷaṉ kakkiri)
• Moksha: кивано (kivano)
• Norwegian: kiwano
• Polish: ogórek kiwano m, kiwano n
• Romanian: pepene cu coarne m
• Serbo-Croatian: kiwano
• Spanish: pepino africano m
• Swedish: kiwano
• Thai: คิวาโน (kí-waa-nóo), แตงหนาม (dtɛɛng-nǎam), แตงเขา (dtɛɛng-kǎo)
• Turkish: boynuzlu kavun
• Ukrainian: ківано m (kivano)