Crossword clues for watermelon
watermelon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Watermelon \Wa"ter*mel`on\, n. (Bot.) The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant ( Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a native of tropical Africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. See Illust. of Melon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A plant of the species (taxlink Citrullus lanatus species noshow=1), bearing a melon-like fruit. 2 The fruit of the watermelon plant, having a green rind and watery flesh that is bright red when ripe and contains black pips. 3 (context pejorative slang English) An environmentalist with socialist leanings (from the similarity to the fruit, being green on the outside, and red on the inside). 4 A pinkish-red colour, like that of watermelon flesh.
WordNet
n. an African melon [syn: watermelon vine, Citrullus vulgaris]
large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp
Wikipedia
Watermelon is a 2003 television film directed by Kieron J. Walsh, and was released on 16 April 2003 on channel ITV. The screenplay is by Colin Bateman. The film is inspired by the novel of the same name by Marian Keyes. The film is starring Anna Friel as Claire, Jamie Draven, Ciaran McMenamin, Sean McGinley, and Brenda Fricker. It is a lighthearted Irish drama following the troubles of a young couple when the man discovers that his beloved is carrying another man's baby.
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus, family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southern Africa. It is a large, sprawling annual plant with coarse, hairy pinnately-lobed leaves and white to yellow flowers. It is grown for its edible fruit, also known as a watermelon, which is a special kind of berry botanically called a pepo. The fruit has a smooth hard rind, usually green with dark green stripes or yellow spots, and a juicy, sweet interior flesh, usually deep red to pink, but sometimes orange, yellow, or white, with many seeds.
Considerable breeding effort has been put into disease-resistant varieties and into developing a seedless strain. Many cultivars are available, producing mature fruit within 100 days of planting the crop. The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked.
Watermelon is a plant with large, green fruit.
Watermelon may also refer to:
- Watermelon (politics), an adherent of ecosocialism
- Watermelon War, an 1856 riot in Panama City
- Watermelon snow, snow colored red by algae
Arts and entertainment:
- Watermelon Chess, an abstract strategy game from China
- Watermelon (novel) by Marian Keyes
- Watermelon (film), a 2003 movie adaptation for television
- "Watermelon" (Eureka Seven episode) in the anime TV series
Biology:
- Watermelon berry, a flowering plant in the Liliaceae family
- Watermelon stomach, a condition were small antral blood vessels dilate
Places in the United States:
- Watermelon Creek, a creek in South Carolina
Usage examples of "watermelon".
We had met in the morning wagon-loads of watermelons and muskmelons, on the way to Jonesboro, and Mr.
Hawkers were selling sherbet and sweetmeats, fried cakes of riverweed and watermelon slices.
She was in the backyard, stretched out on a chaise in a sunsuit that made her belly look like a watermelon in a laundry bag.
Row after row, in every direction, plants were severed from their roots, the wet fruit of the cracked watermelon, the cantaloupe seeds spilled across the seaweed mulch, all of it mashed and the bright leaves blackened by the heavy tires that continued relentlessly grinding across the land with the determination of an advancing army.
There were yams, taro, feis, breadfruit, cocoanuts, oranges, limes, pineapples, watermelons, alligator pears, pomegranates, fish, chickens galore crowing and cackling and laying eggs on our decks, and a live pig that squealed infernally and all the time in apprehension of imminent slaughter.
Large numbers of watermelons were brought to the prison, and sold to those who had the money to pay for them at from one to five dollars, greenbacks, apiece.
Suzy selected a gauzy skirt and silky jewel-toned blouse, a watermelon pink tank dress that fell open from mid-thigh to calf, stonewashed jeans with stretchy ribbed knit tops, scandalously short skirts, cotton sweaters that clung to her breasts.
There were such a mass of jewels as one had never dreamed could be together, jewels red as the inner flesh of watermelons, golden as wheat, green as young leaves in spring, clear as water trickling out of the earth.
The old man in the wheezing lorry loaded-down with watermelons, whose name was Antonio, said he was going back to his home, one of the villages in the foothills of the mountains.
The companions strolled past watermelons, parrots on perches, flowers and herbs dried and fresh, fragrant leather wallets and purses and saddles, burning samples of incense, billowing fabric, fluttering kites of paper and silk, stacked amphoras of wines, wicker cages of squawking chickens, fish strung by the gills on poles, and pastries soaked in honey and twisted into gazelle's horns and serpents and trumpets.
And upon several occasions he had been baffled by the cooings and the little shrieks of feminine appreciation and approval in picture houses when on the screen Dale Torrent roughly slapped a lovely young thing's cheek, or punched her in the jaw, or pushed her face into half a watermelon.
Watching Poltergeist, Frank was disappointed that the whole family survived: He kept hoping that the little boy would be eaten by some creepazoid in the closet and that his stripped bones would be spit out like watermelon seeds.
Nutmeg, cinnamon, guava, fig and coconut-palm grew in the vast cultivations, and the strange jak tree with its heroic fifty-pound fruit hanging from the trunk, and its brother the breadfruit tree, in the guise of the champion of watermelon plants.
Where only recently scooter--rickshaws, camel--carts and repaired bicycles had gone, there now floated newspapers, flowers, bangles, watermelons, umbrellas, chappals, sunglasses, baskets, excrement, medicine bottles, playing cards, dupattas, pancakes, lamps.
Emmy Tatum, she made the best watermelon pickles any place around, and old Jeannie Bland from up at the forks of the creek, she could make apple cider that would grow bark on a mushroom.