melon
UK/ˈmɛlən/
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Australia/ˈmelən/
melon noun: genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others. Also the alternative form of mellon.
Noun
melon (countable and uncountable, plural melons)
- Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
- Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others.
- Benincasa hispida, the winter melon.
- Momordica charantia, the bitter melon.
- The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants.
- The game was up and we began paddling furiously for the opposite shore. This caused Flora to shout all the louder: “Boy! Boys! Don’t let the melons get away. Keep the dadblasted things. If you don’t the whole pack of you will be back to plug and ruin another batch!” So we did, sitting down in a...2000, Frank F[urlong] Mathias, “Camp Black Hawk and Carlisle Christianity”, in The GI Generation: A Memoir, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 198
- Six years ago, when Daniel Humm, the 33-year-old executive chef at Eleven Madison Park, was traveling in Barcelona, Spain, he discovered cooks grilling slices of melon and serving them at a tapas bar.2010 July 5, Elaine Louie, “The Temporary Vegetarian: Grilled Watermelon and Tomato Salad”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
- A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
- The breasts.
- She indicated her left melon, underneath which lay the heart. “Because you stuck with me, and whether you ever said it or not, that is love.”1958, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin
- “Wait a minute.” I said. “James with another woman? Mommy, that doesn't even sound right?” “It's true. I caught him squeezing her melons.”2013, K. L. Brady, Got a Right to Be Wrong, page 107
- The head, the brain.
- Think! Use your melon!
- A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
- A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
Adjective
melon
- Of a light pinkish orange color, like that of melon flesh.
Also used as
melon is also the alternative form of mellon.
melon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
melon in Hindi
- fruit
- मेलन melan, ख़रबूज़ा xarbūzā
melon in Tamil
- fruit
- முலாம்பழம் mulāmpaḻam, இன்னீரம் iṉṉīram
melon in Marathi
- खरबूज
melon in Urdu
- fruit
- خربوزہ xarbūza, میلن melan
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- melon in Bengali
- খরবুজ khorbuz, খরমুজ khormuz, তরমুজ tormuz
- melon in Telugu
- ఖర్బూజాపండు kharbūjāpaṇḍu
- melon in Malayalam
- മത്തങ്ങ mattaṅṅa
- melon in Gujarati
- ખરબૂચ
- melon in Sanskrit
- खर्बूज kharbūja
- melon in Sinhala
- කොමඩු komaḍu
- melon in Assamese
- বাঙী baṅi
- melon in Nepali
- खरबूजा
- melon in Tagalog
- milon, melon
- melon in Arabic
- شَمَّام šammām
- melon in Malay
- melon
- melon in Indonesian
- melon
- melon in Persian
- خربزه xarboze
- melon in Thai
- แตง dtɛɛng
- melon in Vietnamese
- dưa
- melon in Myanmar
- သခွားမသီး sa.hkwa:ma.si:, ဖရုံ hpa.rum
Examples of melon in a sentence
- I bought a dozen melons before heading home, as you do.
- I don't like melon much, and I don’t much care for milk chocolate either: I find them both much too sweet.
- These melons cost a dollar apiece.
Synonyms of melon
Forms of melon
| plural | melons |
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Origin of melon
From Middle English meloun, melon, from Old French melon, from Late Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).
Words formed from melon
- banana melon
- bittermelon
- Charentais melon
- chest melon
- Chinese preserving melon
- Christmas melon
- cotton and melon aphid
- coyote melon
- fodder melon
- French melon
- fuzzy melon
- Hami melon
- jam melon
- kaffir melon
- Korean melon
- mango melon
- melonade
- melonal
- melon aldehyde
- melon aphid
- melon baller
- melon ball scooper
- melon beetle
- melon bread
- melon cactus
- melon cutting
- melonette
- melon fly
- melongrower
- melon head
- melon-headed
- melon-headed whale
- melon heptenal
- melon hole
- melonic
- melonious
- melonist
- melonless
- melonlike
- melon muncher
- melonous
- melonrita
- Melon rugose mosaic virus
- melon thistle
- melontini
- melonworm
- melony
- Montreal melon
- Montreal nutmeg melon
- mouse melon
- Namib melon
- oriental melon
- paddymelon
- pepino melon
- Persian melon
- pineapple melon
- pocket melon
- pomegranate melon
- preserving melon
- Santa Claus melon
Phrases with melon
- musk melon
- snow melon
- true melon
- melon cacti
- melon heads
- melon holes
- snake melon
- stock melon
- water melon
- bitter melon
- citron melon
- horned melon
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Words that rhyme with melon
Questions about melon
- What does melon mean?
- Melon means genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
- What is melon in Hindi?
- Melon in Hindi is मेलन (melan), ख़रबूज़ा (xarbūzā). See Melon meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is melon?
- Melon can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce melon?
- Melon is pronounced /ˈmɛlən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of melon?
- The plural of melon is melons.
Words near melon in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: melon (page history and authors); melon (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melon (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melon (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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