Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A variety of melon (Cucumis melo) having a yellow rind and sweet, whitish flesh.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a winter melon having a yellowish rind; -- called also casaba melon.

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  • noun A variety of melon.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Kasaba, (Turgutlu), a city of western Turkey.]

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From Turkish Kasaba, a town in Turkey, now Turgutlu.

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