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Definition of Netted melon
1. Noun. A muskmelon vine with fruit that has a thin reticulated rind and sweet green flesh.
Terms within: Net Melon, Nutmeg Melon
Generic synonyms: Cucumis Melo, Muskmelon, Sweet Melon, Sweet Melon Vine
2. Noun. The fruit of a variety of muskmelon vine; a melon with netlike markings and deep green flesh.
Generic synonyms: Muskmelon, Sweet Melon
Group relationships: Cucumis Melo Reticulatus, Net Melon, Nutmeg Melon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Netted Melon
Literary usage of Netted melon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"For example, ought the produce obtained by the crossing of the Cantaloup Melon
and netted melon, that of the netted melon and Dudaim, that of Dudaim and ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1864)
"For example, ought the produce obtained by the crossing of the Cantaloup Melon
and netted melon, that of the netted melon and Dudaim, that of Dudaim and ..."
3. American Gardening (1890)
"... and should be pulled as soon as the green color at the bottom of the grooves
has fairly begun to lighten If a netted melon is pulled a little too soon ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... Two important strains of the netted melon type which have come into great
prominence in recent years are tin- Osage, developed in southwestern Michigan, ..."
5. The Table Book by William Hone (1828)
"The kinds were chiefly the following : the Maraîcher, a large netted melon, so
called from being cultivated in the marais or sale-gardens ; the Melon de ..."
6. My Garden, Its Plan and Culture Together with a General Description of Its by Alfred Smee (1872)
"I give a preference myself to a netted melon with thin skin and pink flesh (fig.
369), such as Williams's Paradise Gem ..."
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