"meloncillo" meaning in Spanish

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  "etymology_text": "From melón + -cillo, from Latin mēlōnem.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meloncillos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "biznaga meloncillo"
        }
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2015 October 9, “¿Es necesario matar a los animales que ‘sobran’?”, in El País",
          "text": "Hernández cuestiona de raíz el control de poblaciones, en especial cuando atañe a depredadores como el lobo y a otras especies denunciadas desde diversos sectores (cinegético, pesca fluvial, agricultores…) como invasoras, pero que no son cinegéticas, como meloncillos, cormoranes o calamones.",
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        "the Egyptian mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon"
      ],
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          "Egyptian mongoose",
          "Egyptian mongoose"
        ],
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          "Herpestes ichneumon",
          "Herpestes ichneumon#Translingual"
        ]
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mangosta común"
        },
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          "word": "mangosta egipcia"
        }
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  "word": "meloncillo"
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      "name": "der"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From melón + -cillo, from Latin mēlōnem.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "meloncillos",
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          "ref": "2015 October 9, “¿Es necesario matar a los animales que ‘sobran’?”, in El País",
          "text": "Hernández cuestiona de raíz el control de poblaciones, en especial cuando atañe a depredadores como el lobo y a otras especies denunciadas desde diversos sectores (cinegético, pesca fluvial, agricultores…) como invasoras, pero que no son cinegéticas, como meloncillos, cormoranes o calamones.",
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        "the Egyptian mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon"
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  "word": "meloncillo"
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