WATERMELON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does watermelon mean? 

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

1. an African melon

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

  Familiarity information: WATERMELON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERMELON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An African melon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Citrullus vulgaris; watermelon; watermelon vine

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "watermelon"):

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

Holonyms ("watermelon" is a member of...):

Citrullus; genus Citrullus (a dicot genus of the family Cucurbitaceae including watermelons)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

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

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

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

 Context examples 

The research team sequenced the genomes of 414 watermelons representing all seven species.

(Harvesting genes to improve watermelons, National Science Foundation)

In Spain, almost all watermelon are grown from grafted plants.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

The researchers claim that their watermelon rind technology is among the cheapest developed so far.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

A linear, unsaturated hydrocarbon carotenoid, the major red pigment in fruits such as tomatoes, pink grapefruit, apricots, red oranges, watermelon, rosehips, and guava.

(Lycopene, NCI Thesaurus)

But there are six other wild species of watermelon, all of which, however, have pale, hard and bitter fruits.

(Harvesting genes to improve watermelons, National Science Foundation)

Grafting is common in the farming of watermelon, tomato and cucumber.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

The researchers treated watermelon rind with xanthate salts — which attract and bind arsenic — to produce a filter capable of removing 95 per cent of arsenic from water samples taken from around Pakistan.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

Indeed, watermelon is one of the world’s most popular fruits.

(Harvesting genes to improve watermelons, National Science Foundation)

Watermelon rind, usually discarded as waste, has been shown by researchers in Pakistan to be capable of cheaply and efficiently removing arsenic from groundwater.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

"As people made watermelons sweeter and redder, the fruit lost some abilities to resist diseases and other types of stresses."

(Harvesting genes to improve watermelons, National Science Foundation)