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casaba
or ··
[ kuh-sah-buh ]
noun
- a variety of the winter melon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a wrinkled, yellow rind and sweet, juicy, greenish flesh.
casaba
/ əˈɑːə /
noun
- a kind of winter muskmelon having a yellow rind and sweet juicy flesh
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of casaba1
1885–90, Americanism; named after Kassaba (now Turgutlu), town near Izmir, Turkey, which exported it
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of casaba1
from Kassaba, former name of Turgutlu, Turkey
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Alfred Hitchcock used 78 shots, 52 edits and a casaba melon to piece together the seminal shower scene in his 1960 thriller, “Psycho.”
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One day, after touring fields for a few hours, Miles went to a farmer’s home to find that a family had cooked her casaba roots.
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“I have a weakness for casaba melons. I’ve always had a weakness for casaba melons.”
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A prop man sounded the scene by knifing casaba melons.
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Women from Kenya to Liberia now plant and tend the key food crops like corn, sorghum, millet, sweet potatoes, casaba and peas.
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