Melons

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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).