MELON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does melon mean? 

• MELON (noun)
  The noun MELON has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: MELON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "melon"):

melon ball (a bite of melon cut as a sphere)

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

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

Holonyms ("melon" is a part of...):

melon; melon vine (any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

melon; melon vine

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

gourd; gourd vine (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)

Meronyms (parts of "melon"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "melon"):

Citrullus vulgaris; watermelon; watermelon vine (an African melon)

Cucumis melo; muskmelon; sweet melon; sweet melon vine (any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell)

cucumber; cucumber vine; Cucumis sativus (a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit)

 Context examples 

Its outrages were usually preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic but generally recognised shape—a sprig of oak-leaves in some parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others.

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