melon

See also: Melon, melón, and mełon

English

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛlən/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlən

Etymology 1

From Old French melon, from Medieval Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem (“type of pumpkin”), from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).

Noun

melon (countable and uncountable, plural melons)

  1. (countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
    1. Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.
    2. Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
    3. Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
    4. Genus Momordica, the bitter melon
  2. (uncountable) The fruit of such plants.
  3. (uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
    melon colour:  
  4. (usually in the plural, slang) Breasts.
    • 2013, K. L. Brady, Got a Right to Be Wrong (page 107)
      “Wait a minute.” I said. “James with another woman? Mommy, that doesn't even sound right?” “It's true. I caught him squeezing her melons.”
    • 2013, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin
      She indicated her left melon, underneath which lay the heart. “Because you stuck with me, and whether you ever said it or not, that is love.”
  5. (countable, slang) The head.
  6. (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
  7. (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
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Adjective

melon

  1. Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
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Etymology 2

Noun

melon (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish melón (“melon”).

Noun

melon

  1. melon

Danish

Noun

melon c (singular definite melonen, plural indefinite meloner)

  1. melon

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Esperanto

Noun

melon

  1. accusative singular of melo

Finnish

Verb

melon

  1. First-person singular indicative present form of meloa.

French

Etymology

Old French melon, from Medieval Latin. More at English melon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mə.lɔ̃/
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Noun

melon m (plural melons)

  1. melon (fruit)

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Indonesian

Noun

melon

  1. melon

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

melon m (definite singular melonen, indefinite plural meloner, definite plural melonene)

  1. melon

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

melon m (definite singular melonen, indefinite plural melonar, definite plural melonane)

  1. melon

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Old French

Noun

melon m (oblique plural melons, nominative singular melons, nominative plural melon)

  1. melon (fruit)
    • 1256, Aldebrandin de Sienne, Rég. du corps
      fera une decoction de violetes, de poumes de semence de cahoides, de melons, de citroles, d'ierbes froides

Descendants

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.lɔn/
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Noun

melon m anim

  1. melon (fruit)
  2. (colloquial) female breast
  3. (colloquial) one million PLN

Declension

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