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a swollen water balloon that fooled everyone into calling it fruit
means A large, round, juicy fruit with a thick rind and sweet watery flesh, such as a watermelon or cantaloupe.
from From Latin melo, itself a shortening of melopepo, which the Romans borrowed from Greek melopepon — literally 'apple-gourd,' stitching together melon ('apple,' a catch-all for round fruit) and pepon ('ripe,' as in a gourd softened by the sun). It rolled through Old French as melon before settling into English.
- water content
- watermelon is roughly 92 percent plain water
- botanically
- melons are technically berries called pepos
- luxury price
- Japanese Yubari melons sell for thousands per pair
- every part
- rind and seeds are edible and nutritious
- ancient roots
- cultivated in Egypt over four thousand years ago
cantaloupe — orange-fleshed variety originating from cantalupo, italy, now widely cultivated worldwide
honeydew — pale green melon with sweet flesh, developed in france in the 1920s
watermelon — largest melon species, native to africa, weighs 5-15 kg and contains 92% water