mushmelon

Examples

• All

• The sweet aroma of the mushmelon filled the kitchen as it ripened.

• So I takes the mushmelon?

  The Bowery (1933)

• Steve Brodie was passing by here, and the guys dared him to heave a rotten mushmelon at your name.

  The Bowery (1933)

• So you're goin' back to your kindergarten days again, throwing mushmelons.

  The Bowery (1933)

• I bought a large mushmelon from the farmer's market for dessert.

• She sliced the mushmelon and served it chilled on a hot day.

Synonyms

M

melon

vsmushmelon

86 1.0

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

is a specific sweet orange-fleshed variety within this broader category

C

cantaloupe

vsmushmelon

20 3.1

A round or oval melon with rough tan skin and sweet orange flesh

is the same fruit often named differently in other regions

M

muskmelon

vsmushmelon

1 5.3

A sweet, fragrant fruit with orange flesh like a cantaloupe

is the same fruit known by another common name

C

cantaloup

vsmushmelon

• US

1.8

A round melon with rough tan skin and sweet orange flesh

is the same fruit but spelled or pronounced in variant form

How Sweet

date

276 1.0

mango

34 1.0

watermelon

89 1.0

mushmelon

• Archaic

1 3.7

honeydew

4 2.0

lemon

64 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology