melon

67 1.0

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

noun
/ˈmɛlən/

: melón

Today I got Peppino's, mangoes, melon, pina, Sandia, orange.
melons and other fruits
melon seeds
grow melons

But do not take this as like all melons are easy to grow.

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Examples

We've got some melons from our raised bed harvest still.
Well, you bring me back a nice cold melon, will you, Doc?

The Purple Plain (1954)
And I love the way that melon pairs with meat.

The Drew Barrymore Show
We can plant corn or melons or a few more raised beds if we want.
Four years ago, he pulled in about 28,000 pounds of melons per acre from his crop.

Academic text (1997)
The purchaser of the melon did not observe any defect in the melon rind.

Academic text (1993)
As always, the morning's drama revolved around the melon, last night's honeydew.

Fiction book (1993)
For dessert, we enjoyed a refreshing slice of melon topped with mint.
The summer picnic featured a colorful fruit salad made with ripe melon, strawberries, and blueberries.
He ordered a large bowl of mixed fruit that included honeydew and cantaloupe melons.

Synonyms

fruit

vsmelon

809 1.0

An edible part of a plant like an apple or orange

is a particular large round or oval kind with a hard rind

sweet melon

vsmelon

1 2.6

A round fruit with sweet, juicy flesh eaten fresh

is the specific type that is large round or oval with a hard rind

Compounds

melon ball

2 1.9

A small round piece of melon made with a scoop

honeydew melon

1 1.0

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

casaba melon

1 4.9

A large sweet melon with pale white flesh and a yellow rind

sweet melon

1 2.6

A round fruit with sweet, juicy flesh eaten fresh

winter melon

1 4.4

A large green fruit with pale flesh used in Asian cooking or the plant that makes it

melon vine

1 3.9

A climbing plant that grows melons like watermelons or cantaloupes

Persian melon

1 2.8

A large sweet melon with smooth skin and soft orange flesh

melon tree

3.7

A small tropical tree that grows papayas

net melon

4.4

A sweet melon with green flesh and a net-like rind

netted melon

4.4

A sweet melon with a net-like skin and green flesh

nutmeg melon

4.9

A melon with rough netted skin and sweet green flesh

sweet melon vine

4.1

A vine that grows sweet melons with a netted rind, like cantaloupe

winter melon vine

6.3

A climbing plant that grows large smooth fruits used in Asian cooking

How Ripe

overripe

6 3.0

melon

67 1.0

ripening

2 2.7

unripened

1 4.2

Surface Forms

melon singular

melons plural

Etymology

Melon comes from an old Greek word mēlon meaning 'apple', because people once used the same word for many round fruits. So a melon is simply a large, round, sweet fruit today.