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MELON VINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does melon vine mean? 

MELON VINE (noun)
  The noun MELON VINE has 1 sense:

1. any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbersplay

  Familiarity information: MELON VINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MELON VINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

melon; melon vine

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "melon vine"):

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 vine"):

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)


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