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# watermelon

«watermelon» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large round or oval fruit with a hard green skin and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a watermelon, watermelons; watermelon — the flesh, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A large round or oval fruit with a hard green skin and sweet, juicy red or pink flesh with black seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#m1)

2) The juicy flesh of this fruit as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is a summer fruit at picnics and barbecues. In science, it shows seeds and that watermelon is about 90 per cent water. In maths, slices of watermelon are used for fractions. Phrases: a slice of watermelon, seedless watermelon.

### examples

- We ate watermelon at the beach on a hot day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x1)
- A watermelon is mostly water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x2)
- Mum cut the watermelon into eight equal slices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x3)
- Don't swallow the seeds, spit them out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x4)
- Watermelons grow on long vines on the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x5)
- A whole watermelon is heavy, so carry it with two hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x6)
- I would like some more watermelon, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x7)
- Charley laughed, and said he would let the old man off if he would treat to a watermelon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x8)

### note

Countable for whole fruits (two watermelons), uncountable for the flesh (some watermelon). Myth: swallowing a seed will not make a watermelon grow in your tummy. In fraction problems, a watermelon cut into 8 equal slices gives each slice one eighth.

### In the corpora

- [Sam told his little sister that a swallowed watermelon seed grows a watermelon in your belly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/5/)
- [Swallowing a watermelon seed does not grow a watermelon inside you; the seed simply passes through.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/34/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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