Melon vs. Watermelon

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.

Watermelonnoun

A plant of the species Citrullus lanatus, bearing a melon-like fruit.

Watermelonnoun

The fruit of the watermelon plant, having a green rind and watery flesh that is typically bright red when ripe and contains black pips.

Watermelonnoun

An environmentalist with socialist leanings (from the similarity to the fruit, being green on the outside, and red (Communist) on the inside).

Watermelonnoun

A pinkish-red colour, like that of watermelon flesh (also called watermelon pink).

Watermelonnoun

The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a native of tropical Africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. See Illust. of Melon.

Watermelonnoun

an African melon

Watermelonnoun

large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp

Watermelon

Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit. A scrambling and trailing vine-like plant, it was originally domesticated in Africa.