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 Same as
pademelon . - 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.
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 chemistry The result of
heptazine beingpolymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through anamine (NH) link. - 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.
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.
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Bijoux, cheese and melon is such a good combination and definitely - love.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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When she woke up, she got them some tuna salad and melon from the fridge.
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But did the streets of Speculative Ficville need to be covered in melon seeds to prove this?
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