Melon vs Felon - What's the difference?
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(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)
(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.
Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
(chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.
A person who has committed a felony.
* 1859 , (Charles Dickens), A Tale of Two Cities , James Nisbet & Company (1902), Book 3, Chapter 6,
(legal) A person who has been tried]] and [[conviction, convicted of a felony.
As nouns the difference between melon and felon
is that melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber while felon is a person who has committed a felony.As an adjective melon
is of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.melon
English
(wikipedia melon)Etymology 1
(etyl) melon, from .Noun
- “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 .”
Adjective
Derived terms
* * melon beetle * melon cactus * * melon thistle * * * * * * *See also
* calabash * cantaloupe * casaba * crenshaw * melinite * spanspek *Etymology 2
Noun
(-)Anagrams
* (l) ----felon
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) felun, feloun, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 340:
- Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.