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CANTALOUPE
Definition of CANTALOUPE
noun
Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types: Cantalupensis Group sensu stricto, with non- or slightly netted rind, also known as true cantaloupe or European cantaloupe, found in the Middle East and Europe. Reticulatus Group (now merged into Cantalupensis Group), with strongly netted rind, also known as American cantaloupe, muskmelon or rockmelon.
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Where it comes from
From French cantaloup, from Italian Cantalupo (a place name), from Italian canto + lupo, literally "howl of the wolf". Named after Cantalupo in Sabina, a former Papal summer estate near Rome, where the melons were first grown after being introduced to Europe.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,293)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CANTALOUPE · 4 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CANTALOUPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 57 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CANTALOUPE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACELNOPTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CANTAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found CANTALOUPE?
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