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Coconut vs Melon - What's the difference?

coconut | melon |

As nouns the difference between coconut and melon

is that coconut is a fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), cocos nucifera , having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed while melon is melon.

coconut

English

(wikipedia coconut)

Alternative forms

* cocoanut

Noun

  • A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera , having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
  • A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
  • (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
  • The coconut palm.
  • (pejorative, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside. Compare .
  • (South Africa, pejorative) A black person who thinks "white" (European). Compare .
  • (New Zealand, pejorative) A Pacific islander.
  • (slang) A female breast.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (acting white) (l), (l), (l)

    Derived terms

    * coconut milk * coconutty

    See also

    * (cultural pejoratives) banana, Oreo English ethnic slurs

    melon

    English

    (wikipedia melon)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) melon, from .

    Noun

  • (countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
  • # Genus Cucurbita , various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.
  • # Genus , the watermelon and others
  • # Genus Benincasa , a winter melon
  • # Genus , the bitter melon
  • (uncountable) The fruit of such plants.
  • (uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
  • (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 .”
  • (countable, slang) The head.
  • (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
  • (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 colour, like that of melon flesh.
    • Derived terms
    * * melon beetle * melon cactus * * melon thistle * * * * * * *

    See also

    * calabash * cantaloupe * casaba * crenshaw * melinite * spanspek *

    Etymology 2

    Noun

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

    • Anagrams

    * (l) ----