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honeydew

honeydew

4 2.0
A large round melon with sweet pale green flesh
  • noun
  • /ˈhʌniˌdu/
translation icon : melón dulce
  • This is some good honeydew.
  • orange-fleshed honeydew
  • honeydew and cantaloupe
  • honeydew and watermelon

The green melon is called honeydew.

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Examples

  • At his local Korean vegetable market, he ordered a case of honeydews already so ripe they were marked down by fifty percent.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • I love honeydews.

    Father Figures (2017)

  • I'm going to get rid of both of these and I'm going to keep the honeydew, but the rest I'll let go.

  • His belly was the size of a honeydew melon balanced above his belt.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Hello, honeydew melon.

    World's Greatest Dad (2009)

  • Winter or summer, they ate melon for breakfast: honeydew (Jean's favorite) or cantaloupe.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Over dessert of melon balls, watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew, she began to feel drowsy.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Among the smooth-rinded, orange-fleshed honeydews tested, Orange Dew scored highest in appearance and nutritional value.

    Academic text (2006)

  • My personal favorite jugo (juice) discovery in South America was fresh jugo de melón (honeydew melon).

    Blog text (17)

  • I prepared a refreshing fruit salad with chunks of honeydew, pineapple, and strawberries.

Synonyms

melon
vshoneydew
86 1.0

A large round or oval fruit with thick skin and soft sweet inside like a watermelon

is a specific smooth skinned variety with pale green flesh not any type
honeydew melon
vshoneydew
1 1.0

A large sweet round fruit with pale skin and light green flesh

is the shorter form used without the generic noun
sweet melon
vshoneydew
2.6

A round fruit with sweet, juicy flesh eaten fresh

is one specific variety with pale green flesh and greenish white rind

Compounds

honeydew melon
1 1.0

A large sweet round fruit with pale skin and light green flesh

honeydew honey
6.8

Dark sweet spread made by bees from sticky drops on leaves with a strong rich taste

How Sweet

date
276 1.0
mango
34 1.0
honeydew
4 2.0
cantaloupe
20 3.1
watermelon
89 1.0

Surface Forms

honeydew singular
honeydews plural

Morphology

honeydew = honey + dew (semi-transparent) = honey + dew

Formed from 'honey' + 'dew' so the idea of a sweet, dew-like substance is clear, but identifying it specifically as a particular type of melon requires extra lexical/cultural knowledge.

Etymology

Honeydew comes from the simple parts honey and dew, like 'honey-like dew'. It was used for the pale green melon because the inside is very sweet like honey and the fruit often looks smooth and fresh like a drop of dew, so the name helps you remember this sweet, juicy melon.