melon

Meanings

Noun

• Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
• The fruit of such plants.
• A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
• Breasts.
• The head.
• A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
• A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
• The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

Adjective

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

Origin

• From Middle English meloun, melon, from Old French melon, from Late Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων, from μῆλον + πέπων.