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MELON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does melon mean?
• MELON (noun)
The noun MELON has 2 senses:
1. any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
2. any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
Familiarity information: MELON used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("melon" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "melon"):
melon ball (a bite of melon cut as a sphere)
muskmelon; sweet melon (the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers)
watermelon (large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp)
Holonyms ("melon" is a part of...):
melon; melon vine (any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
melon; melon vine
Hypernyms ("melon" is a kind of...):
gourd; gourd vine (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)
Meronyms (parts of "melon"):
melon (any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "melon"):
Citrullus vulgaris; watermelon; watermelon vine (an African melon)
Cucumis melo; muskmelon; sweet melon; sweet melon vine (any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell)
cucumber; cucumber vine; Cucumis sativus (a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit)
Context examples
Its outrages were usually preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic but generally recognised shape—a sprig of oak-leaves in some parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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