Large fruit of trailing plants, having a hard rind and juicy flesh as well as seeds in the middle Different varieties include the Cantaloupe and the Honeydew
any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
The Mahometans say that the eating of a melon produces a thousand good works So named from Melos Etre un melon To be stupid or dull of comprehension The melon-pumpkin or squash is soft and without heart, hence être un melon is to be as soft as a squash So also avoir un &cocur; de melon (or de citrouille) means to have no heart at all Tertullian says of Marcion, the heresiarch, he has a pumpkin [peponem ] in the place of a heart [cordis loco ] It will be remembered that Thersites, the railer, calls the Greeks pumpkins (pepones)
any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
Family of fruits All have a thick, hard, inedible rind, sweet meat, and lots of seeds Common examples: watermelon, cantaloupe
A melon is a large fruit which is sweet and juicy inside and has a hard green or yellow skin. Any of the seven groups of Cucumis melo, a trailing vine grown for its edible, sweet, musky-scented fruit. Members of the horticulturally diverse gourd family, melons are frost-tender annuals native to central Asia but widely grown in many cultivated varieties in warm regions worldwide. They have soft, hairy, trailing stems, large round to lobed leaves, yellow flowers, and large flat seeds. The fruits of the numerous cultivated varieties differ greatly in size, shape, surface texture, flesh colour, flavour, and weight. Examples include cantaloupe, honeydew, and casaba. Plants resembling true melons include the watermelon, the Chinese watermelon, the melon tree (see papaya), and the melon shrub, or pear melon (Solanum muricatum)
any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit
The fruit of any of various cucurbitaceous plants such as muskmelon or watermelon Johnson ordered seeds of all kinds, some from Niagara Phillip Miller's GARDENER'S KALENDAR, in a list of 18th Century vegetables, calendared "Green fleshed & netted wrought melons Delicious Canteleupe Keep varieties apart The Diarkehr the best; Portugal melon "