honeydew melon

Questions about honeydew melon

What does honeydew melon mean?

honeydew melon means "any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for honeydew melon?

Close synonyms include winter melon, Persian melon, winter melon vine, Cucumis melo inodorus, honeydew. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is honeydew melon a common word?

honeydew melon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.