Meanings
plural honeydew melons
- A melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorus cultivar group, with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind.
When the female praying mantis is mating, she does not bite the head off the male with one swift snip: she chomps into it, like an apple. It appears to have the texture of a honeydew melon.
2021 May 27, Helen Sullivan, “A praying mantis: she bites into her mate’s head like an apple and cleans her face ‘like a cat’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2023Synonyms: honeydew
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorus cultivar group, with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind.
More synonyms by meaning
nounany of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell
nounthe fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian медена роса
- медена роса (medena rosa)melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Chinese Cantonese 蜜瓜
- 蜜瓜 (mat⁶ gwaa¹)melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Chinese Mandarin 白蘭瓜 /白兰瓜, 蘭州蜜瓜 /兰州蜜瓜
- 白蘭瓜 /白兰瓜 (báilánguā)melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
- 蘭州蜜瓜 /兰州蜜瓜 (Lánzhōu mìguā)melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
- 蜜瓜 (mìguā)melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Czech cukrový meloun, medový meloun
- cukrový melounmelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
- medový melounmelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Finnish hunajameloni
- hunajamelonimelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
French melon miel
- melon mielmelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
German Honigmelone
- Honigmelonemelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Malay tembikai susu
- tembikai susumelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Polish melon spadziowy
- melon spadziowymelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Russian муска́тная ды́ня
- муска́тная ды́ня (muskátnaja dýnja)melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Spanish melón rocío melifluo
- melón rocío melifluomelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Swedish honungsmelon
- honungsmelonmelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Tagalog melong lunti
- melong luntimelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Turkish tatlı ve sulu kavun
- tatlı ve sulu kavunmelon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Yiddish צעסאַרקע
- צעסאַרקע (tsesarke)melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorous group cultivar group with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind
Cite this entry
honeydew melon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/honeydew%20melon
“honeydew melon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/honeydew%20melon. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “honeydew melon,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/honeydew%20melon.
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