felony

As nouns the difference between felony and felons

is that felony is (us|legal) a serious criminal offense, which, under federal law, is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year while felons is .

As an adjective melony

is resembling melons, melon-like.

As a proper noun Melony

is {{given name|female|from=Ancient Greek}}, a less common spelling of Melanie.

As a noun felony is

a serious criminal offense, which, under federal law, is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.

As nouns the difference between felonry and felony

is that felonry is felons as a group while felony is a serious criminal offense, which, under federal law, is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and felony

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while felony is (us|legal) a serious criminal offense, which, under federal law, is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.

As nouns the difference between felony and violation

is that felony is (us|legal) a serious criminal offense, which, under federal law, is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year while violation is the act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.

As nouns the difference between felony and nonfelony

is that felony is (us|legal) a serious criminal offense, which, under federal law, is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year while nonfelony is a crime that is not a felony.