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fictional fruit in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 / pepino melon
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  *瓜* | 瓜* | *瓜
melon; gourd; squash / (slang) a piece of gossip
HSK 4
"wife cake" – a thin, flaky Cantonese pastry filled with sweetened winter melon (or other mild sweet fillings)
fruit (plural sense) / melons and fruit
melon seed / seeds of pumpkin, watermelon or sunflower etc, roasted and flavored, consumed as a snack
HSK 7-9
Hami melon (a variety of muskmelon) / honeydew melon / cantaloupe
wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida) / white gourd / white hairy melon / Chinese squash
melon farmer
lit. to follow the vine to get to the melon / to track sth following clues
lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
(Tw) oriental melon (Cucumis melo Makuwa Group)
oriental melon (Cucumis melo Makuwa Group) / cantaloupe; muskmelon (Cucumis melo)
lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom) / fig. don't do anything that might arouse suspicion / innocent acts may be misconstrued
honeydew melon
lit. (of a melon vine) laden with melons of all sizes (idiom) / fig. (of descendants) to thrive and prosper for generations
melon field
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap. / One must live with the consequences of one's actions. / You've made your bed, now must lie on it.
snake melon / loofah
when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently / to know sth inside out / to know sth by heart
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  *瓞* | 瓞* | *瓞
(literary) small melon
club (ancient stick-like weapon with a melon-shaped enlargement at the tip) / (flower) bud
the umbilicus of a melon
snake melon


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