sweet melon
- noun
:
melón dulce
- For dessert, we served a refreshing fruit salad with chunks of sweet melon and berries.
Examples
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On a hot summer day, she enjoyed a slice of sweet melon with her lunch.
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He would cut a ripe, sweet melon -- he didn't think it was too late in the season to find one -- and pour a well-chilled champagne.
Fiction book (1999) -
The farmers market had an abundance of sweet melon available to taste.
Synonyms
89
1.0
A large round fruit with green skin and sweet, juicy red flesh
86
1.0
A large round or oval fruit with thick skin and soft sweet inside like a watermelon
20
3.1
A round or oval melon with rough tan skin and sweet orange flesh
4
2.0
A large round melon with sweet pale green flesh
1
5.3
A sweet, fragrant fruit with orange flesh like a cantaloupe
1
3.7
A round fruit with sweet orange flesh like a cantaloupe
1
1.0
A large sweet round fruit with pale skin and light green flesh
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4.9
A large sweet melon with pale white flesh and a yellow rind
A round melon with rough tan skin and sweet orange flesh
A sweet melon with a net-like skin and green flesh
A sweet melon with green flesh and a net-like rind
A melon with rough netted skin and sweet green flesh
A large sweet melon with smooth skin and soft orange flesh
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a melon that is sweet' is directly derived from the adjective 'sweet' modifying the noun 'melon'; this is a straightforward adjective+noun composition. Such compositional, literal phrases are common across languages and follow basic English grammar, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun sweet melon comes from markets and farms where people would cut and taste melons to find the sweetest ones. People put together sweet + melon to show the fruit is juicy and good 'to eat fresh', so today it means a melon with sweet, juicy flesh.