In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
pepo (plural pepos)
A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
A plant producing such a fruit.
• (fruit): gourd, melon, pumpkin, squash, cucumber
• (plant): cucurbit
• Pope, peop., pope
Source: Wiktionary
Pe"po, n. Etym: [L., a kind of melon, from Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 June 2025
(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”
In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.