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Definition of Melongenes
1. melongene [n] - See also: melongene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melongenes
Literary usage of Melongenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Food Resources by Joseph Russell Smith (1919)
"... melongenes, cassava, and farine. For two meals a day boiled vegetables, together
with salt fish or meat, are served. The other meal consists of ..."
2. Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn (1890)
"... with a peel prickly and knobby as the skin of a horned toad; but they stew
exquisitely. And melongenes, or egg-plants; and palmiste- pith, ..."
3. Catalogue de la bibliothèque scientifique de MM. de Jussieu: dont la vente by Adrien de Jussieu, Bernard de Jussieu (1857)
"2999. Traité des melons, par Jacques Pons, Lyon, 1680, in-12, br., rogn. 3000.
Végétaux comestibles, cultivés en 1826. = Matthews, melongenes. 1826. ..."
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