melon-like

Lively, with lip-smacking acidity and yet also some melon-like fleshiness.

White Bordeaux, Well Worth Seeking Out 2009

The wines tend to have melon-like fruit but a firm backbone that makes them quite different from sunny, gulpable, simple Italian Pinot Grigio.

Steaming Up to Summer 2008

We thought it would have a melon-like texture inside but were we surprised when we cut it open to discover this...

Archive 2008-06-01 kat 2008

We thought it would have a melon-like texture inside but were we surprised when we cut it open to discover this...

Triple Dog Dare - Horned Melon kat 2008

The opening where one pokes his/her head through is stretchy to accommodate medium sized noggins as well as melon-like ones.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - PacMan Hat 2005

The distinctive yet melon-like aroma of cucumbers develops when the flesh is cut or chewed, and comes from the action of enzymes that break long membrane fatty-acid molecules into smaller chains that are 9 carbon atoms long; the characteristic melon fragments are alcohols, the cucumber fragments aldehydes.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The distinctive yet melon-like aroma of cucumbers develops when the flesh is cut or chewed, and comes from the action of enzymes that break long membrane fatty-acid molecules into smaller chains that are 9 carbon atoms long; the characteristic melon fragments are alcohols, the cucumber fragments aldehydes.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Without his even asking, she undid her bodice, and murmured, "Now you may do what you like," offering her melon-like breasts to him as if they were on a platter.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

Without his even asking, she undid her bodice, and murmured, "Now you may do what you like," offering her melon-like breasts to him as if they were on a platter.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

A cultivated papaw which some Indian had planted within a few years, stood twelve feet high and was filled with great melon-like papaws, each one of which weighed from five to ten pounds.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock