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# melon

«melon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big round or oval fruit with a hard skin and a sweet…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (melon, melons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A melon is a big round or oval fruit with a hard skin and a sweet, juicy inside full of seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#m1)

2) Watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew are kinds of melon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

fruit counted, weighed, sold or cut into equal slices; in everyday life a summer fruit for picnics; in science a fruit that grows on a vine and is mostly water

### examples

- A melon costs 3 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x1)
- She cut the melon into 8 slices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x2)
- The farmer sold 40 melons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x3)
- Each melon weighs 2 kg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x4)
- We ate cold watermelon at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x5)
- A melon grows on a long vine on the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x6)
- Scoop out the seeds before you eat the melon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x7)
- Tom spat a melon seed across the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melon/#x8)

### note

Counted fruit or weight per melon. Cutting into slices points to division or fractions. Trap: slices are parts, not whole melons. Countable: a melon, two melons; «some melon» means some pieces of it.

### Trees and pragmatics

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