melon
(noun) any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
melon, melon vine
(noun) any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
melon (countable and uncountable, plural melons)
(countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.
Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
Genus Momordica, the bitter melon
(uncountable) The fruit of such plants.
(uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
(usually, in the plural, slang) Breasts.
(countable, slang) The head.
(countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) 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.
melon
Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
melon (uncountable)
(chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.
• Lemon, Menlo, Monel, lemon, nmole
Source: Wiktionary
Mel"on, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. melo, for melopepo an apple-shaped melon, Gr. malum apple. Cf. Marmalade.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo. Melon beetle (Zoöl.), a small leaf beetle (Diabrotiea vittata), which damages the leaves of melon vines.
– Melon cactus, Melon thistle. (a) (Bot.) A genus of cactaceous plants (Melocactus) having a fleshy and usually globose stem with the surface divided into spiny longitudinal ridges, and bearing at the top a prickly and woolly crown in which the small pink flowers are half concealed. M. communis, from the West Indies, is often cultivated, and sometimes called Turk's cap. (b) The related genus Mamillaria, in which the stem is tubercled rather than ribbed, and the flowers sometimes large. See Illust. under Cactus.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2024
(verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; “The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
