a yellow fruit with purple stripes, produced by the South and Central American evergreen plant Solanum muricatum
2.
the South and Central American evergreen plant Solanum muricatum, characterized by its blue flowers and purple-yellow fruit
3. geography
an isolated, steep-sided, conical limestone hill in a karstic region, esp in Puerto Rico
Word origin
Spanish
Examples of 'pepino' in a sentence
pepino
Although host-related groups were not observed, the watermelon and ‘melão-pepino' strains exhibited only low or moderate virulence on melon fruit.
Kirley Michele Marques Silva, André Silva Xavier, Marco Aurélio Siqueira Gama, NelsonBernardi Lima, Maria do Carmo Castanho Pereira Lyra, Rosa Lima Ramos Mariano, ElineideBarbosa Souza 2016, 'Polyphasic analysis of Acidovorax citrulli strains from northeastern Brazil', Scientia Agricolahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162016000300252&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)