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# honeydew

«honeydew» in Mova's school dictionary: **a kind of melon with smooth pale skin and sweet…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (honeydew — uncountable; a honeydew melon)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A honeydew is a kind of melon with smooth pale skin and sweet pale-green flesh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#m1)

2) Honeydew is a sweet sticky liquid made by insects such as aphids, which ants like to eat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, honeydew melon is a fruit in fruit salads. In science lessons, aphids suck plant sap and give out honeydew; ants farm aphids and protect them to get it, an example of animals helping each other. Honeydew makes leaves and cars under trees sticky.

### examples

- We had honeydew melon for pudding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x1)
- Honeydew melons are pale green inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x2)
- Ants drink the honeydew made by aphids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x3)
- The car under the tree was sticky with honeydew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x4)
- Bees sometimes collect honeydew to make honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x5)
- Cut the honeydew into cubes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x6)

### note

One word. A honeydew or a honeydew melon. The insect honeydew is uncountable. It is not dew and not made by bees, though bees can collect it.

### In the corpora

- [Some ants guard aphids from ladybirds and stroke them for sweet honeydew, and some keep aphid eggs in the nest over winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «honeydew» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.