Melon Definition
mĕlən
melons
noun
melons
Any of several large, juicy, thick-skinned, many-seeded fruits of certain trailing plants of the gourd family, as the watermelon, muskmelon, and cantaloupe.
Webster's New World
Any of these plants.
Webster's New World
The fruit of any of these plants, having a hard rind and juicy flesh.
American Heritage
Profits, winnings, political spoils, or the like, for distribution among stockholders, etc.
Webster's New World
A fatty structure in the forehead of cetaceans, especially the toothed whales, thought to be used in the production of high-frequency sounds.
American Heritage
adjective
Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
Wiktionary
Origin of Melon
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Old French melon, from Medieval Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem (“type of pumpkin"), from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mÄ“lopepōn), from μῆλον (mÄ“lon, “apple") + πέπων (pepōn, “ripe").
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French from Late Latin mēlō mēlōn- short for Latin mēlopepō from Greek mēlopepōn mēlon apple pepōn gourd
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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