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dawnkhaw (Hmar)
Contributed by: LALREMTHANG HMAR on 2009-02-02
1. (Common Noun) fruit and plant of a vine-like (climber and trailer) herb originally from southern Africa and one of the most common types of melon. This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit known by botanists as a pepo, which has a thick rind (exocarp) and fleshy center (mesocarp and endocarp); pepos are derived from an inferior ovary and are characteristic of the Cucurbitaceae. The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon (although not in the genus Cucumis), has a smooth exterior rind (green,yellow, and sometimes white) and a juicy, sweet, usually red, but sometimes orange, yellow, or pink interior flesh. NULL
English: citrullus lanatus, water-melon,
Assamese: তৰমুজ,
Bodo: खेरमुजा,
Meeteilon: tarbhooj,
Karbi: thoithe bonghom,
Hmar: dawnkhaw,
Nagamese: bangi,
Dimasa: taisum tiprah, Thaishum Pana