Melon vs. Pumpkin

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.

Pumpkinnoun

A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.

Pumpkinnoun

The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.

Pumpkinnoun

(uncountable) The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant.

Pumpkinnoun

(Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.

Pumpkinnoun

(US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.

Pumpkinnoun

A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, - used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.

Pumpkinnoun

a coarse vine widely cultivated for its non-keeping large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes

Pumpkinnoun

usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn

Pumpkin

A pumpkin is a cultivar of winter squash that is round with smooth, slightly ribbed skin, and is most often deep yellow to orange in coloration. The thick shell contains the seeds and pulp.