Melonnoun
(countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
Peponoun
A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
Melonnoun
Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.
Peponoun
A plant producing such a fruit.
Melonnoun
Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
Peponoun
Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.
Melonnoun
Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
Melonnoun
Genus Momordica, the bitter melon
Melonnoun
(uncountable) The fruit of such plants.
Melonnoun
(uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
Melonnoun
Breasts.
Melonnoun
The head.
Melonnoun
A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
Melonnoun
(countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
Melonnoun
(chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.
Melonadjective
Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
Melonnoun
The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
Melonnoun
A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.
Melonnoun
any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
Melonnoun
any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
Melonnoun
the large round fruit of a plant of the gourd family, with sweet pulpy flesh and many seeds
‘a slice of melon’; ‘a ripe melon will smell sweet’;
Melonnoun
a woman's breasts.
Melonnoun
the Old World plant which yields the melon.
Melonnoun
a waxy mass in the head of dolphins and other toothed whales, thought to focus acoustic signals.
Melon
A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, and fleshy fruit. The word can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit.
‘melon’;