What is the difference between melon and lemon?
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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 yellowish citrus fruit.
A semitropical evergreen tree, , that bears such fruits.
A taste or flavour/flavor of lemons.
A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
(slang) A defective or inadequate item.
Smart; cheeky, vocal.
* 2009 , (Caitlin Moran), ‘Why I love paying tax’, The Times , 12 Oct 2009:
favour, favor.
(fandom) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex (named after the erotic anime series (Cream Lemon) ).
Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
Lemon is a anagram of melon.
As nouns the difference between melon and lemon
is that melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber while lemon is a yellowish citrus fruit.As adjectives the difference between melon and lemon
is that melon is of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh while lemon is containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.As a proper noun Lemon is
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(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) ----lemon
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(Citrus limon)Noun
(en noun)- He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon .
- Obviously Emin is not the first public figure to get lemon over tax increases.
- A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon , I could get it for half that.