melon
- noun
- A2
- Top 5000
A large round fruit with a hard skin, sweet juicy yellow or orange inside and many seeds in the middle.
This melon is too green inside and has no taste.
We had melon with ham as a starter before the main course.
This melon smells sweet, so it must be ripe enough.
Scoop the seeds out of the melon before you chop it.
Common collocations: a ripe melon · a slice of melon · cut a melon · melon seeds · half a melon
Part of: Fruit
Forms
- plural
- melons