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melon; gourd; squash / (slang) a piece of gossip
HSK 4
watermelon / CL: 顆|颗, 個|个
HSK 4
cucumber / CL: 條|条
HSK 4
pumpkin
HSK 7-9
to partition / to divide up
HSK 7-9
idiot / fool
HSK 7-9
melon seed / seeds of pumpkin, watermelon or sunflower etc, roasted and flavored, consumed as a snack
HSK 7-9
fruit (plural sense) / melons and fruit
Guadalajara
pumpkin (Gymnopetalum chinense) / a mace with a brass head resembling a pumpkin
Ecuador
Nicaragua
bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
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
papaya (Carica papaya) / genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae / Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)
cucumber
muskmelon
connection / association / involvement
Kuala Terengganu, capital of Terengganu state, Malaysia
fruit and vegetables
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) / yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus) / (TCM) digua fig (Ficus tikoua Bur.)
oval face
Hami melon (a variety of muskmelon) / honeydew melon / cantaloupe
Hami melon (a variety of muskmelon) / honeydew melon / cantaloupe / also written 哈密瓜
cantaloupe melon
Chinese skullcap resembling the skin of half a watermelon
melon farmer
skull / brain / head / mind / mentality / ideas
wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida) / white gourd / white hairy melon / Chinese squash
papaya
(of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64
lit. to follow the vine to get to the melon / to track sth following clues
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.
cucumber
(dialect) pumpkin
idiot / fool
Gwadar, free trade port city in Pakistani province of Baluchistan
when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time
malt sugar candy, a traditional offering to the kitchen god Zaoshen 灶神
Managua, capital of Nicaragua
pickled cucumber
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
(dialect) pumpkin
snake melon / loofah
zucchini
guarana (Paullinia cupana)
(neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it
(of animals) round and fat
fool / blockhead
Antigua and Barbuda
luffa (loofah)
Ecuador (Tw)
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom)
white flowered gourd or calabash (family Crescentia)
snake melon
gherkin
Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
sour expression on one's face
chayote (Sechium edule); choko; mirliton
boiled noodles served without broth, topped with just a sprinkle of oil and some chopped spring onions, to which customers add vinegar, soy sauce or chili oil according to their taste
foolproof
point-and-shoot camera / compact camera
Nuku'alofa, capital of Tonga (Tw)
jack-o'-lantern
peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016)
sweet potato or yam noodles
Antigua
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
a smaller variety of watermelon, with big, edible seeds
smashed cucumber salad
ugly / repulsive / also written 歪瓜裂棗|歪瓜裂枣
ugly / repulsive
Tellina iridescens (a bivalve mollusk) / any similar small clam
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
Guatemala (Tw)
(dialect) fool / a silly
Guazhou county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu
Guazhou county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu
Guadeloupe
no gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect (proverb)
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
the umbilicus of a melon
pedicel and calyx of muskmelon (used in TCM)
Guadalcanal Island
battle of Guadalcanal of late 1942, the turning point of the war in the Pacific
Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
Gwadar Port on Arabian Sea in Pakistani province of Baluchistan
bottle gourd
honeydew melon
eggplant (Cantonese)
smelt (family Osmeridae)
erhua variant of 腦瓜|脑瓜
pickle
Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945)
Cerro Aconcagua, mountain in the Americas

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