white, mild fruit good raw or cooked
( merl tawn). A pale green member of the squash family, a mirliton is usually identified as a vegetable pear. The standard preparation is to scrape the pulp from halved mirlitons, fill them with shrimp and seasoned bread crumbs, and bake them.
(MER-leh-ton)A green, mild-flavored squash, which grows prolifically on climbing vines in the humid climate. Also known as Aztec squash, vegetable pear, mango squash, or chayote.