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Ogen|ˈəʊgɛn| Also with lower-case initial. [Place-name (see below).] The name of a kibbutz in Israel, used attrib. in Ogen melon to designate a small melon with pale orange flesh and brownish-orange skin ribbed with green, belonging to a variety first developed there.
1967Guardian 14 June 6/7 The tiny Ogen melon... Paler-fleshed than its French antecedent, the Charentais, it has the same voluptuous flavour. 1969Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 118/2 ‘Ogen Melon’. The name is derived from a kibbutz in Israel where it was bred and whence it has been exported during the last decade. It is said to belong to the cantaloupe group of varieties. 1973Observer (Colour Suppl.) 1 July 39/1 The small ogen melon, orange ribbed with green..was first grown by Nathan Fuchs at the Ogen kibbutz, north of Tel Aviv. 1976Listener 12 Feb. 171/3 This one place on the Dead Sea..is now the source of such fruits as the ogen melons we enjoy in London in midwinter. |