noun

• 1A salad vegetable that resembles a very small watermelon but tastes like a slightly sour cucumber.

  More example sentences

  • ‘the cucamelons were quite a unique experience, reminding me of gherkins in texture’

• 2The climbing plant of the gourd family that yields cucamelons, native to Central America.

  Melothria scabra, family Cucurbitaceae