English
Noun
winter melon (plural winter melons)
- A vine of the genus Benincasa cultivated throughout Asia.
- A green, fuzzy melon fruit with sweet white flesh, which grows on this vine.
Nearly mature winter melon
Translations
vine
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 冬瓜藤 (dōngguāténg)
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- Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa
- Russian:
- Tagalog: kundol
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fuzzy melon fruit
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 冬瓜 (dung1 gwaa1), 節瓜, 节瓜 (zit3 gwaa1) (smaller variety with fuzzy skin)
- Mandarin: 冬瓜 (zh) (dōngguā), 節瓜, 节瓜 (jiéguā)
- Min Nan: 冬瓜 (zh-min-nan) (tang-koe)
- Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa
- French: courge cireuse f
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- German: Wachskürbis m
- Japanese: トウガン (tōgan)
- Korean: 동과 (donggwa (冬瓜))
- Russian: воскова́я ты́ква f (voskovája týkva), зи́мняя ты́ква f (zímnjaja týkva), зи́мняя ды́ня f (zímnjaja dýnja)
- Tagalog: kundol
- Vietnamese: bí đao
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Synonyms
See also
winter melon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia