sweet melon vine
- noun
:
planta de melón dulce
- Farmers often plant sweet melon vine varieties like cantaloupe for their juicy, fragrant melons.
Examples
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The sweet melon vine sprawled across the garden, producing dozens of delicious fruits during the summer.
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After weeks of careful tending, the sweet melon vine yielded its first ripe melon.
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I love the taste of sweet melon vine in summer.
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The sweet melon vine grows well in warm climates.
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Farmers often plant sweet melon vine varieties like cantaloupe for their juicy, fragrant melons.
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After weeks of careful tending, the sweet melon vine yielded its first ripe melon.
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The sweet melon vine sprawled across the garden, producing dozens of delicious fruits during the summer.
Synonyms
A vine that makes sweet melons like cantaloupe or honeydew
A plant that grows round melons with rough tan skin and orange flesh
A climbing plant that grows round melons with orange flesh
A climbing plant that grows melons like watermelons or cantaloupes
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Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'sweet' (tasting of sugar) modifies 'melon' (a fruit), and 'vine' indicates the plant that bears the melon, so a B1 learner who knows the three words can infer it refers to a melon-producing vine with sweet fruit. This structure follows normal noun-modifier patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, making the overall meaning immediately predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
Sweet melon vine paints a simple picture: a vine that bears sweet melons. So it refers to climbing plants that produce juicy fruits with a rough, net-like skin, like cantaloupe.
