cantaloupe

Meaning

Noun

• A melon of species Cucumis melo subsp. melo (subspecies) with sweet orange flesh, with numerous cultivars in several cultivar groups.
• An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.

Origin

• From French cantaloup, from Italian Cantalupo, after a former Papal summer estate near Rome, where the melons were first grown after being introduced to Europe.