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Cantaloupe - Wikipedia
The cantaloupe is a type of true melon (Cucumis melo) with sweet, aromatic, and usually orange flesh. Originally, cantaloup referred to the true cantaloupe ...
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How the cantaloupe melon received it's name spanspek
In southern Africa her memory lives on in the name of a fruit: the cantaloupe or rock melon is called spanspek in Namibia and South Africa.
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SPANSPEK Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SPANSPEK is a usually somewhat pale-fleshed and moderately sweet muskmelon that is widely cultivated in southern Africa.
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spanspek
spanspek S. Afr. (ˈspænspɛk) Also spanspec, sponspe(c)k. [ad. Afrikaans spaanspek sweet melon, f. Du. Spaans(ch)e Spanish + spek bacon.] = cantaloup.[1731 G. Medley tr. Kolb's Descr. Cape Good Hope II. 277 Melo Hispanicus. i.e. The Spanish or Musk-Melon. The Musk Melons, produc'd at the Cape, are as...
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Ooh Melons - Cantaloupe | Fruit | Grow To Eat | The Gardener
Known as cantaloupe in much of the world, here the sweet melon is generally referred to as spanspek by English and Afrikaans speakers alike.
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Cucumis melo (Armenian Cucumber, Cantaloupe, Casaba Melon ...
Cucumis melo, also known as cantaloupe, is a warm-season, annual climbing vine, native to Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India, New Guinea and Australia. It is an ...
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7+ Hundred Spanspek Royalty-Free Images, Stock Photos & Pictures
The cantaloupe, rockmelon, sweet melon, or spanspek are a type of fruit. They are classified as a melon that is a variety of the true melon species from the ...
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How the cantaloupe became known as a spanspek in South Africa
As Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith was Spanish-born, cantaloupe was henceforth referred to as Spanish bacon or Spaanse spek, which is ...
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Melon Hale's Best (Spanspek) - Kirchhoffs
Melon Hale's Best is a salmon-colored, sweet, ribbed, heavily netted melon, also called muskmelon, that needs 1-2m spacing and will not ripen off the vine.
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SPANSPEK Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Spanspek definition: a sweet rough-skinned melon; a cantaloupe: family Cucurbitaceae. See examples of SPANSPEK used in a sentence.
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Other favourite agricultural crops are beans, peas, groundnuts, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, potatoes, carrots, pineapple, spanspek, watermelon, nuts, alfalfa
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Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith
Lady Smith is sometimes said to have introduced the cantaloupe (Cucumis melo cantalupensis) to South Africa, where it is known as spanspek (or spanspec
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sweet
▪ I. sweet, n. (swiːt) Forms: see next. [sweet a. used subst.] 1. a. That which is sweet to the taste; something having a sweet taste. Chiefly poet.a 1300 Cursor M. 7126 Of þe etand þe mete vt sprang, And þe suete vte o þe strang. Ibid. 23979 He dranc þe sure and i þe suete. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 82 F...
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List of South African English regionalisms
spanspek a cantaloupe
spaza an informal trading post/convenience store found in townships and remote areas
standard besides other meanings, used to
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