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mushmelon

mushmelon is the dated form of muskmelon.

Meaning of muskmelon

Noun

muskmelon (plural muskmelons)

  1. A true melon (Cucumis melo): such a plant or its fruit, especially one with sweet flesh.
    1. The type of such melon plant whose fruit has a netted rind and sweet aromatic flesh, Cucumis melo Reticulatus Group (sometimes merged into Cantalupensis Group); the fruit thereof.

Forms of mushmelon

pluralmushmelons

Questions about mushmelon

What is mushmelon the dated form of?
Mushmelon is the dated form of muskmelon.

Words near mushmelon in the dictionary

  1. mushing up
  2. mushings
  3. mushistonite
  4. Mushki
  5. mushlike
  6. mushmelon
  7. mushmelons
  8. mushmouth
  9. mushmouthed
  10. mushmouths
  11. mushquash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mushmelon (page history and authors); muskmelon (page history and authors). 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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