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瓜
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Definitions
- 1. melon
- 2. gourd
- 3. squash
Example Sentences
1 shown傻 瓜 。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 瓜
smashed cucumber salad
every potter praises his own pot (idiom)
eggplant (Cantonese)
oval face
Nicaragua
(dialect) pumpkin
Cerro Aconcagua, mountain in the Americas
fruit and vegetables
cucumber
bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap.
honeydew melon
Gwadar Port on Arabian Sea in Pakistani province of Baluchistan
lit. to follow the vine to get to the melon
(of a girl) to lose one's virginity
snake melon
skull
zucchini
Guadeloupe
gherkin
smelt (family Osmeridae)
no gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect (proverb)
a changeover of personnel
(dialect) pumpkin
Gwadar, free trade port city in Pakistani province of Baluchistan
sweet potato or yam noodles
to partition
Chinese skullcap resembling the skin of half a watermelon
Kuala Terengganu, capital of Terengganu state, Malaysia
cucumber
Ecuador
(of animals) round and fat
wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida)
sour expression on one's face
when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time
melon seed
guarana (Paullinia cupana)
fool
Antigua and Barbuda
Hami melon (a variety of muskmelon)
connection
(neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it
lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom)
pickled cucumber
Managua, capital of Nicaragua
Antigua
(neologism) (slang) it's none of your business (imitation of an accented pronunciation of 與你無關|与你无关[yǔ nǐ wú guān])
pumpkin (Gymnopetalum chinense)
muskmelon
peanut gallery (esp. in online forums)
the umbilicus of a melon
see 佛手瓜[fó shǒu guā]
Guazhou county in Jiuquan 酒泉[jiǔ quán], Gansu
(Taiwan) see 嘰哩咕嚕|叽哩咕噜[jī li gū lū]
pickle
snake melon
Guadalajara
Muggles (Harry Potter)
malt sugar candy, a traditional offering to the kitchen god Zaoshen 灶神
Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
melon farmer
Guazhou county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu
idiot
bottle gourd
luffa (loofah)
papaya
(dialect) fool
papaya (Carica papaya)
Tellina iridescens (a bivalve mollusk)
point-and-shoot camera
spaghetti squash (Cucurbita pepo)
Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom)
pumpkin
cantaloupe melon
Hami melon (a variety of muskmelon)
Guadalcanal Island
ugly
lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom)
a smaller variety of watermelon, with big, edible seeds
ugly
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
watermelon
every potter praises his own pot (idiom)
see 腦瓜|脑瓜[nǎo guā]
white flowered gourd or calabash (family Crescentia)
battle of Guadalcanal of late 1942, the turning point of the war in the Pacific
chayote (Sechium edule); choko; mirliton
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently
Mount Aconcagua, Argentina, the highest point in the Western Hemisphere
(dialect) pumpkin
cucumber
fruit (plural sense)
idiot
jack-o'-lantern