Melon vs Mellon - 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.
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(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.
(rare, chemistry) A poorly characterized cyclic cyanide; [(CN)2NH]3, C6N4 or similar.
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Mellon is a alternative form of melon.
As nouns the difference between melon and mellon
is that melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber while mellon is a poorly characterized cyclic cyanide; [(CN)2NH]3, C6N4 or similar.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 .”