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1. n. Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber. | |
2. n. Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon. | |
3. n. Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others | |
4. n. Genus Benincasa, a winter melon | |
5. n. Genus Momordica, the bitter melon | |
6. n. The fruit of such plants. | |
7. n. A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh. | |
(color panel, FDA058) | |
8. n. (usually slang) Breasts. | |
9. n. (slang) The head. | |
10. n. (Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group. | |
11. n. A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations. | |
12. adj. Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh. | |
13. n. (chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link. | |