melon

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlən/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlən

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

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 honeydew, cantaloupes, and horned melon.
   2. Genus Citrullus, watermelons and others
   3. Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
   4. Genus Momordica, a bitter melon
2. (uncountable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
3. (uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.

   melon:  

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.”

   • 1958, 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.

   Think! Use your melon!

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.

• fruit

• cantaloupe, citron melon, honeydew, honeydew melon, muskmelon (musk melon), citron melon, Persian melon, rockmelon, watermelon, winter melon

• → Japanese: メロン
• → Korean: 멜론 (mellon)
• → Welsh: melon

melon

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

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• mellon

melon (uncountable)

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

• Lemon, Menlo, Monel, lemon, nmole

From Spanish melón (“melon”).

melon

1. melon

melon c (singular definite melonen, plural indefinite meloner)

1. melon

• “melon” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): [ˈmelon]
• Rhymes: -elon
• Hyphenation: me‧lon

melon

1. accusative singular of melo

melon

1. first-person singular present indicative of meloa

Inherited from Old French melon, from Late Latin mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”). More at English melon.

• IPA^(key): /mə.lɔ̃/

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melon m (plural melons)

1. melon (fruit)

• “melon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

melon (first-person possessive melonku, second-person possessive melonmu, third-person possessive melonnya)

1. melon

• kerahi (rare)

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

1. melon

• “melon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

1. melon

• “melon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Late Latin mēlō, mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”).

melon oblique singular, 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

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• → Middle Dutch: melone
  • Afrikaans: meloen
  • Dutch: meloen
• → Middle English: mē̆loun, melon, milon
  • → English: melon, mellon
    • → Japanese: メロン
    • → Korean: 멜론 (mellon)
    • → Welsh: melon
• French: melon

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mēlōnis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.lɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlɔn
• Syllabification: me‧lon
• Homophone: Melon

melon m inan (diminutive melonik, related adjective melonowy)

1. melon (any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae)
2. melon (Cucumis melo)

   Synonym: ogórek melon

3. melon (large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants)
4. (colloquial, humorous, chiefly in the plural) huge female breast

   Synonym: balon

5. (colloquial) one million big ones (one million of any currency, especially PLN)

   Synonyms: bańka, duża bańka

6. (cetology) melon (mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations)

• melon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• melony in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• melon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• melon in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from French melon.

melon n (plural meloane)

1. bowler hat

Borrowed from Italian melone, from Late Latin mēlō, mēlōnem.

melon c

1. melon
2. (slang) melon (breast)

   Schyssta meloner! ― Nice melons!

• melon in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• melon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• melon in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /meˈlon/ [mɛˈlon]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: me‧lon

melón (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎᜓᜈ᜔)

1. Alternative form of milon

• melwn

Borrowed from English melon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlɔn/

melon m (plural melonau or melons)

1. melon

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “melon”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies