melons

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melons - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Melons
  only in Num. 11:5, the translation of the Hebrew abattihim, the
  LXX. and Vulgate pepones, Arabic britikh. Of this plant there
  are various kinds, the Egyptian melon, the Cucumus chate, which
  has been called "the queen of cucumbers;" the water melon, the
  Cucurbita citrullus; and the common or flesh melon, the Cucumus
  melo. "A traveller in the East who recollects the intense
  gratitude which a gift of a slice of melon inspired while
  journeying over the hot and dry plains, will readily comprehend
  the regret with which the Hebrews in the Arabian desert looked
  back upon the melons of Egypt" (Kitto).