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Definition of Casaba
1. Noun. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
Definition of Casaba
1. Noun. A variety of melon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Casaba
1. a variety of melon [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Casaba
Literary usage of Casaba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greece and the Levant; Or, Diary of a Summer's Excursion in 1834: With by Richard Burgess (1835)
"... on the right: the road to Magnesia branches off to the left: but we took the
road to casaba and Sardis. Travelling by moonlight, with the fresh breeze ..."
2. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1881)
"The casaba grows very strongly, and the fruit is large and almost as good as the
... The Bay View is good and easily grown ; it is much like the casaba. ..."
3. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1879)
"The casaba grows very strongly, and the fruit is large and almost, as good as the
... The Bay View is good and easily grown ; it is much like the casaba. ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1912)
"The mycelium on casaba (Cucumis melo L.) forms a black or brown sooty crust on
the leaves, most abundant on the upper surface. Plant lice were abundant on ..."
5. Journey Through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan in the Years 1813 and by John Macdonald Kinneir (1818)
"From casaba to Ali Bey, the next stage, it was twenty-eight miles over the plain;
with Ka- radja Dag on our right hand, and the mountains of ..."
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