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Melons

Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, and fleshy fruit

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10 images from works
  • A plant, possibly a melon (Cucumis melo): flowering and fruiting stem with segments of the fruit. Watercolour.
  • A man carrying a large basket filled with melons on his back he is offering one to a woman who smells it. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • Melon (Cucumis melo): stem with large fruit and flowers. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1843.
  • A càntaloupe' melon (Cucumis melo subsp. melo): one opened fruit and many fruits under cultivation. Chromolithograph, c. 1890.
  • A bite mark in a piece of melon representing a message to enjoy the richness of life as part of a fact sheet on how you can and cannot get AIDS; an advertisement by INSA International Services Assocation in India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Melon (Cucumis melo L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate whole and sectioned mature fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Melon (Cucumis melo): stem with large fruit and flowers. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1843.
  • Plates of a cleft fossil, melons of stone and the ruined church of St. Iuan d'Akari. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, c.1704.
  • In a garden, men with wens look through magnifying glasses at round flowers. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1823.
  • Two melon fruits, a honeydew melon (Cucumis melo) and water melon (Citrullus lanatus) Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.

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Cucurbitaceae
Fruit
Cucumis
Tropical fruit
Botany
Plants
Plants, Cultivated
History, 19th Century
England
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