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honeydew melon

honeydew melon noun: a melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorus cultivar group, with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind.

Noun

honeydew melon (plural honeydew melons)

  1. A melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorus cultivar group, with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind.
    • When the female praying mantis is mating, she does not bite the head off the male with one swift snip: she chomps into it, like an apple. It appears to have the texture of a honeydew melon.2021 May 27, Helen Sullivan, “A praying mantis: she bites into her mate’s head like an apple and cleans her face ‘like a cat’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2023
    Synonyms:
    honeydew

honeydew melon meaning in Tagalog and Malay

honeydew melon in Tagalog

melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
melong lunti

honeydew melon in Malay

melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
tembikai susu

Synonyms of honeydew melon

Forms of honeydew melon

pluralhoneydew melons

Questions about honeydew melon

What does honeydew melon mean?
Honeydew melon means a melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorus cultivar group, with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind.
What is honeydew melon in Tagalog?
Honeydew melon in Tagalog is melong lunti. See Honeydew melon meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is honeydew melon?
Honeydew melon is a noun.
What is the plural of honeydew melon?
The plural of honeydew melon is honeydew melons.

Words near honeydew melon in the dictionary

  1. Honeycutt
  2. Honeycutts
  3. honeydew
  4. honeydew list
  5. honeydew lists
  6. honeydew melon
  7. honeydew melons
  8. honeydew moth
  9. honeydewed
  10. honeydews
  11. honeydoll

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