Usually means: Fleshy fruit with thick rind.
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  1. melon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. melon, melon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. melon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. melon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. melon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Melon, melon: Wordnik
  7. melon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. melon: Wiktionary
  9. melon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. melon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. melon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Melon, melon: Dictionary.com
  13. melon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. melon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Melon (band), Melon (cetacean), Melon (chemistry), Melon (online music service), Melon (whale), Melon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Melon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. melon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. melon: Rhymezone
  19. melon, melon (m), meln: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. melon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. melon: Free Dictionary
  22. melon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. melon: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. melon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Melon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Melon: Artist Search
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  1. Melon: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
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  1. melon: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
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  1. melon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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  2. MELON, MELON: French-English Wine Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
noun:  Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including honeydew, cantaloupes, and horned melon.
noun:  Genus Citrullus, watermelons and others
noun:  Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
noun:  Genus Momordica, a bitter melon
noun:  (uncountable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
noun:  (uncountable) A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
noun:  (usually in the plural, slang) Breasts.
noun:  (countable, slang) The head.
noun:  (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
noun:  (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
adjective:  Of a light pinkish orange color, like that of melon flesh.
noun:  (chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

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