Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A spiny Andean shrub (Solanum muricatum) in the nightshade family, having violet or blue flowers and edible purple-streaked fruit with fragrant yellow flesh.
- noun The fruit of this plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Spain and in countries settled by the Spanish, the cucumber, Cucumis sativus.
- noun In Peru and Central America, a cultivated plant, Solanum muricatum, which bears fruit resembling a melon or a papaw, used extensively in Peru as a vegetable but rather insipid and inferior to a melon in flavor.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Several TV stations have launched special programming to promote the maligned vegetable, including the La Sexta network, which is running a series of events and promotions it calls the "pepino revolution".
Europe's E. Coli Cases Rise Laura Stevens 2011
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E. coli Outbreak Spreads Tobias Schwarz/Reuters Confirmation that Spanish cucumbers are not to blame for the outbreak has led to rising public support in Spain for the country's farmers in what has been dubbed the "pepino crisis."
Europe's E. Coli Cases Rise Laura Stevens 2011
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The purple-striped ‘melumber’ – officially known as the pepino – tastes like a cross between a melon and a cucumber.
Fruit That Tastes Like a Cross Between Melon and Cucumber | Impact Lab 2007
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The vodka-based mango ginger martini is a bit sweet, the spicy pepino margarita not spicy enough.
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As usual, several women and children came on the bus to sell things – pepino cucumber was a big one, pork meals, and chicken meals were also common.
Copan Ruinas, Honduras, A Long Day's Journey to an Ancient Mayan Civilization Belizean' A New Trail 2008
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As usual, several women and children came on the bus to sell things – pepino cucumber was a big one, pork meals, and chicken meals were also common.
Archive 2008-08-01 Belizean' A New Trail 2008
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(Passiflora sp.) that are superior to most commonly known cultivars; pepino
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First came the appetizers in form of thin slices of salami and of a peculiar Mexican sausage, so extremely hot with chili pepino as to immediately call for a drink of claret to assuage the burning.
Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. Clarence E. Edwords
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By the natives the pepino is, and not altogether unreasonably, believed to be injurious.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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These dishes may be accompanied by classic cocktails or original creations such as u'love, the lychee martini or the pepino colada.
Newswire Today - Free Newswire - Press Releases Distribution 2010
haguremetaru commented on the word pepino
pepino: Spanish for cucumber.
December 10, 2006