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honeydew melons

honeydew melons is the plural of honeydew melon.

Meaning of honeydew melon

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

Questions about honeydew melons

What is honeydew melons the plural of?
Honeydew melons is the plural of honeydew melon.

Words near honeydew melons in the dictionary

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

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