HONEYDEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honeydew mean? 

• HONEYDEW (noun)
  The noun HONEYDEW has 1 sense:

1. the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh

  Familiarity information: HONEYDEW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONEYDEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

honeydew; honeydew melon

Hypernyms ("honeydew" is a kind of...):

winter melon (the fruit of the winter melon vine; a green melon with pale green to orange flesh that keeps well)

 Context examples 

The box is a yellow half-pound honeydew box, with nothing distinctive save two thumb marks at the left bottom corner.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The box is a half-pound box of honeydew tobacco and does not help us in any way.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)