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Marrow vs Melon - What's the difference?

marrow | melon |

As nouns the difference between marrow and melon

is that marrow is (lb) the substance inside bones which produces blood cells or marrow can be (geordie|informal) a friend, pal, buddy, mate while melon is melon.

marrow

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mary, marow, marowe, , Icelandic (m), and also Russian ("brain").

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • (lb) A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.
  • *1847 , Sir (Robert Hermann Schomburgk), "Steam-Boat Voyage to Barbados", Bentley's Miscellany , Vol XXII, London: Richard Bentley, p.37:
  • *:The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetable marrow , were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers.
  • The essence; the best part.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:It takes from our achievements/ The pith and marrow of our attribute.
  • *(Thomas Tusser) (1524-1580)
  • *:Chopping and changing I cannot commend, / With thief or his marrow , for fear of ill end.
    • Derived terms
    * bone marrow * marrowbone
    Related terms
    * courgette * cucumber * gherkin * pickle * squash * zucchini

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) margr.

    Alternative forms

    * marra

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
    • Cheers marrow !
  • (Scotland) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.

    • References

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    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

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