or cantaloup
noun
Origin: Fr < It cantalupo, after Cantalupo, former papal summer estate, near Rome, where the melon was first grown in Europe
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also can·ta·loup
nounOrigin:
Origin: French cantaloup
Origin: , perhaps from Italian cantalupo (from Cantalupo, a former papal villa near Rome)
Origin: or from Cantaloup, a village of southern France
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