melons

Noun

melon (countable and uncountable, plural melons)

1. Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
2. Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others.
3. Benincasa hispida, the winter melon.
4. Momordica charantia, the bitter melon.
5. 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
6. (uncountable) A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.

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