Santa Claus melon

English

Santa Claus melon

Noun

Santa Claus melon (plural Santa Claus melons)

1. A variety of melon, Cucumis melo, with sweet, pale green to white flesh and an easily recognizable green-olive striped peel, which has earned the fruit its Spanish name piel de sapo (“lit. frog's skin”).

Synonyms

• Christmas melon
• piel de sapo

Translations

cultivar of melon

• Finnish: piel de sapo, piel de sapo -meloni
• Portuguese: melão-espanhol m, melão-pele-de-sapo m