different between melon vs rockmelon

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l?n/
• Rhymes: -?l?n

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French melon, from Late Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem (“type of pumpkin”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (m?lopép?n), from ????? (mêlon, “apple”) + ????? (pép?n, “ripe”).

Noun

melon (countable and uncountable, plural melons)

1. (countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
   1. Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.
   2. Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
   3. Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
   4. Genus Momordica, the bitter melon
2. (uncountable) The fruit of such plants.
3. (uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.

4. (usually in the plural, slang) Breasts.
   • 2013, K. L. Brady, Got a Right to Be Wrong (page 107)

     “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.”
5. (countable, slang) The head.
6. (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
7. (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???
• ? Korean: ?? (mellon)
• ? Welsh: melon

Translations

Adjective

melon

1. Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• mellon

Noun

melon (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

Anagrams

• Lemon, Menlo, Monel, lemon, nmole

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish melón (“melon”).

Noun

melon

1. melon

Danish

Noun

melon c (singular definite melonen, plural indefinite meloner)

1. melon

Declension

Derived terms

• honningmelon
• vandmelon

References

• “melon” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Noun

melon

1. accusative singular of melo

Finnish

Verb

melon

1. First-person singular indicative present form of meloa.

French

Etymology

From Old French melon, from Late Latin m?l?, m?l?nem, shortening of Latin m?lopep?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (m?lopép?n, “melon”). More at English melon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.l??/

Noun

melon m (plural melons)

1. melon (fruit)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “melon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Noun

melon (first-person possessive melonku, second-person possessive melonmu, third-person possessive melonnya)

1. melon

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

melon m (definite singular melonen, indefinite plural meloner, definite plural melonene)

1. melon

Derived terms

• vannmelon

References

• “melon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

melon m (definite singular melonen, indefinite plural melonar, definite plural melonane)

1. melon

References

• “melon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin m?l?, m?l?nem, shortening of Latin m?lopep?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (m?lopép?n, “melon”).

Noun

melon m (oblique plural melons, nominative singular melons, nominative plural melon)

1. melon (fruit)
   • 1256, Aldebrandin de Sienne, Rég. du corps

     fera une decoction de violetes, de poumes de semence de cahoides, de melons, de citroles, d'ierbes froides

Descendants

• ? Middle Dutch: melone
  • Afrikaans: meloen
  • Dutch: meloen
• ? Middle English: m??loun, melon, milon
  • ? English: melon
    • ? Japanese: ???
    • ? Korean: ?? (mellon)
    • ? Welsh: melon
• French: melon

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.l?n/

Noun

melon m inan

1. melon (fruit)
2. (colloquial) female breast
3. (colloquial) one million z?otych
4. (cetology) melon

Declension

Further reading

• melon in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• melon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French melon

Noun

melon n (plural meloane)

1. bowler hat

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Italian melone, from Late Latin m?l?, m?l?nem.

Noun

melon c

1. melon

Declension

Derived terms

Welsh

Etymology

From English melon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l?n/

Noun

melon m (plural melonau)

1. melon

Mutation

English

Etymology

rock +? melon

Pronunciation

Noun

rockmelon (plural rockmelons)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A type of melon, Cucumis melo var. reticulatus, with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting.
   • 1998, FAO, Pesticide Residues in Food, 1998, Evaluations: Part 1: Residues, Volume 1, page 459,

     Australia reported trials on cucumbers, zucchini, rockmelons and watermelons. […] Twenty-four rockmelons were dipped, followed by 24 cucumbers. The dimethoate dip solution was analysed before and after the dippings and contained 409 mg/l and 404 mg/l respectively. Four samples each of rockmelon and cucumber were taken 0, 3 and 7 days after treatment and homogenized.

   • 2004, Michele Cranston, Marie Claire Kitchen, page 41,

     rockmelon ginger whip

     Put 280 g (10 oz/2 cups) chopped ripe rockmelon (or other orange-fleshed melon), 125 ml (4 fl oz/1/2 cup) orange juice, 1 tablespoon chopped fresh ginger and 8 ice cubes in a blender. Blend until smooth and pour into tall glasses.

   • 2006, Leanne Kitchen, Grower?s Market, page 148,

     Also called ‘netted’ melon (because of the raised webbing on its skin) or muskmelon on account of its glorious smell when ripe, rockmelon has deep, peachy-coloured flesh which is rich in beta carotenes (vitamin A).

   Synonym: cantaloupe

   Hypernyms: muskmelon, melon

Usage notes

Within Australia, C. m. reticulatus is known as rockmelon in Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales, and as either rockmelon or cantaloupe in Victoria.

Translations

See also

• Cucumis
• Cucumis melo
• Cucurbitaceae
• gourd