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image:Cantaloupes.jpg|thumb|right|160px|[[ripe|Ripe rockmelon]]
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Noun
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1. AU A type of melon, w:Cucumis melo reticulatus|Cucumis melo reticulatus, with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting. Also known as cantaloupe.

Usage notes
In Australia, this fruit (C. m. reticulatus) is known as rockmelon in Queensland and New South Wales, but as a rockmelon or cantaloupe in Victoria. (One of relatively few regional variations in terminology within Australia other than from commercial brands).

Category:Fruits

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• 2007-07-18 13:50 - Dart evader - Wikipedia has an article on "cantaloupe", not on "rockmelon"
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