noun
(also cucumelon)
1A salad vegetable that resembles a very small watermelon but tastes like a slightly sour cucumber.
- ‘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
Origin
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