Santa Claus melon

English

Noun

Santa Claus melon (plural Santa Claus melons)

A variety of melon, Cucumis melo, with sweet, pale green to white flesh and an easily recognizable green-olive striped peel, which has earned the fruit its Spanish name piel de sapo (“lit. frog's skin”).

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cultivar of melon

Finnish: piel de sapo, piel de sapo -meloni
Portuguese: melão-espanhol m, melão-pele-de-sapo m

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