Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various vines of the family Cucurbitaceae, especially Cucumis melo or Citrullus lanatus, widely cultivated for their edible fruit.
- noun The fruit of any of these plants, having a hard rind and juicy flesh.
- noun A fatty structure in the forehead of cetaceans, especially the toothed whales, thought to be used in the production of high-frequency sounds.
- noun Vulgar Slang A woman's breasts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A herbaceous succulent trailing annual plant, Cucumis Melo, natural order Cucurbitaceæ, or its fruit, the muskmelon.
- noun The watermelon, Citrullus vulgaris.
- noun A melon-shell.
- noun A hemispherical mass of blubber taken from the top of the head of the black-fish, grampus, and related cetaceans; melon-blubber.
- noun Same as
pademelon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.
- noun (Zoöl.) a small leaf beetle (
Diabrotiea vittata ), which damages the leaves of melon vines. - noun (Bot.) The related genus Mamillaria, in which the stem is tubercled rather than ribbed, and the flowers sometimes large. See
Illust. underCactus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
fruits of the familyCucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including thecucumber . - noun A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
- noun in the plural, slang
Breasts . - noun slang The head.
- adjective Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
- noun chemistry The result of
heptazine beingpolymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through anamine (NH) link.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
- noun any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If the melon is a very sweet one, taste before adding sugar; it may not need much, if any.
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If the melon is a very sweet one, taste before adding sugar; it may not need much, if any.
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If the melon is a very sweet one, taste before adding sugar; it may not need much, if any.
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In bottle: Red musk and melon is a weird intersection.
Odin's Day cafenowhere 2009
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Bijoux, cheese and melon is such a good combination and definitely - love.
Spring is Springing with Recipe for Watermelon, Feta, and Arugula Salad (Δροσερή Σαλάτα με Καρπούζι, Ρόκα και Φέτα) Laurie Constantino 2008
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Well, not feeling so hot that Christmas AM, I oped for simplicity - a big bowl of puffed Kamut grains and a mug of green tea, followed by a few pieces of melon from the platter, a clementine orange, and eventually a couple pieces of 70% Lindt chocolate from a bar that was in my stocking!
Archive 2008-12-01 Sarah 2008
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At the last minute, Ginny got a melon from the crisper, scooped out the seeds, and drizzled yogurt on each half.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: PAINTERLAND Maggie Jochild 2007
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Next, the quick-witted Cook of Live To Cook turns to a different language to find a Q fruit: it turns out the fragrant cantaloupe melon is Qawun kantalubi in the Arabic language!
Archive 2007-05-01 Nupur 2007
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When she woke up, she got them some tuna salad and melon from the fridge.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994 Maggie Jochild 2007
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But did the streets of Speculative Ficville need to be covered in melon seeds to prove this?
ccfinlay: Wow! ccfinlay 2006
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The beluga whale’s “melon”—a technical term—is a mass of fat tissue on its forehead that helps to project sounds for echolocation.
Belugas Flirt and Fight by Morphing Their Squishy Forehead Monique Brouillette 2024
yarb commented on the word melon
A large, fat-filled organ located in the forehead of a harbour porpoise, which serves to focus sound-waves out into the ocean.
November 10, 2007
cricket commented on the word melon
Are you serious?! Eeew...
March 3, 2008