Melon vs. Muskmelon

Melonnoun

(countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.

Melonnoun

Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.

Melonnoun

Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others

Melonnoun

Genus Benincasa, a winter melon

Melonnoun

Genus Momordica, the bitter melon

Melonnoun

(uncountable) The fruit of such plants.

Melonnoun

(uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.

Melonnoun

Breasts.

Melonnoun

The head.

Melonnoun

A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.

Melonnoun

(countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.

Melonnoun

(chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

Melonadjective

Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.

Melonnoun

The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.

Melonnoun

A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.

Melonnoun

any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh

Melonnoun

any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers

Melonnoun

the large round fruit of a plant of the gourd family, with sweet pulpy flesh and many seeds

Melonnoun

a woman's breasts.

Melonnoun

the Old World plant which yields the melon.

Melonnoun

a waxy mass in the head of dolphins and other toothed whales, thought to focus acoustic signals.

Melon

A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, and fleshy fruit. The word can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit.

Muskmelonnoun

A cantaloupe, a type of melon, Cucumis melo subsp. melo (cantaloupe group), with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting.

Muskmelonnoun

The fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Cucumis Melo) of the gourd family, having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon.

Muskmelonnoun

any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell

Muskmelonnoun

the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers