Melon vs. Pepo — What's the Difference?

A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, and fleshy fruit. The word "melon" can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit.

The fruit of any of various related plants, such as the cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumber, squash, pumpkin, and melon, having a hard or leathery rind, fleshy pulp, and numerous flattened seeds.

The large round fruit of a plant of the gourd family, with sweet pulpy flesh and many seeds

A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.

The Old World plant which yields the melon.

A plant producing such a fruit.

A waxy mass in the head of dolphins and other toothed whales, thought to focus acoustic signals.

Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.

Any of various vines of the family Cucurbitaceae, especially Cucumis melo or Citrullus lanatus, widely cultivated for their edible fruit.

The fruit of any of these plants, having a hard rind and juicy flesh.

A fatty structure in the forehead of cetaceans, especially the toothed whales, thought to be used in the production of high-frequency sounds.

Melons Vulgar Slang A woman's breasts.

(countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.

Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including honeydew, cantaloupes, and horned melon.

Genus Citrullus, watermelons and others

Genus Benincasa, a winter melon

Genus Momordica, a bitter melon

(uncountable) Fruit of such plants.

(uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.

Breasts.

The head.

A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.

(countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.

(chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.

The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.

A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.

Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh

Any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers