cucumis melo

Questions about cucumis melo

What does cucumis melo mean?

cucumis melo means "any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell".

What is another word for cucumis melo?

Close synonyms include sweet melon, muskmelon, sweet melon vine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cucumis melo a common word?

cucumis melo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.