Honeydew or cantaloupe, for example

Usage examples of melon.

Wagyu back home, sat in a booth around an immense stainless-steel griddle, and ordered a raw beef appetizer, a beef main course, beer, sake, and melon ice cream.

Their blackened bellies had bloated like ripe melons, and small creatures could be seen squirming under their stretched skins.

Mek Gamal called a halt, then, and we ate melons, their fruit faintly astringent, but blessedly moist.

Bienville, the brother, also deserves remembrance both in France and America--dismissed once but exonerated, returning later to succeed the pessimistic Cadillac and to lay the foundations of New Orleans on the only dry spot he had found on his first journey up the river, there to plant the seed of the fruits and melons and pumpkins of the garden on Dauphin Island, that were to bring forth millionfold, though they have not yet entirely crowded out the cypress and the palmetto, and the fleur-de-lis that still grows wild and flowers brilliantly at certain seasons.

There were garnet-red cherries, peridot grapes, apples like great rubies streaked with gold and amber, amethyst blueberries, strawberries glowing like pink charcoal, yellow pears of topaz, lucid gooseberries of translucent green quartz, quinces still on their twigs, melons, pomegranates, polished damsons, figs like blushing drops of jade.

Myfwany said, popping a roll of melon and prosciutto into her mouth and dusting her hands together.

Khefti thriftily had his cook pickle the rinds from his melons, in keeping with his parsimonious nature.

For two hours did that wretched man prosecute his unhallowed calling, unrecompensed, and going round and round the court, apparently under the impression that it was some other place, while Melons surveyed him from an adjoining fence with calm satisfaction.

The fruits are citrus, dates, melons, apricots, figs, almonds, and cactus fruit.

The duarough produced tiny melons the size of fists, plump rosy appleberries, yellow rumroot wrapped in husks, shelled halver nuts and the great white mushrooms of which he was so fond, along with a sprig of withered, aromatic leaves.

He now shipped carloads of melons to Denver, raised sweet corn and was making a big success of his sugar beets, which for the time being he fed to cattle, since there was no sugar factory in the region.

Quinn rose in his chair as far as the restraints would allow and saw that Scooter did indeed have a blowhole just behind his melon.

From orbit, the land looks like the surface of a cantaloupe melon, and that gave it its name.

You will marry the queen and have a son with a nose like a casaba melon.

Private shows with big dogs and tiny gentlemen and women with breasts as big as casaba melons.