melon tree

Questions about melon tree

What does melon tree mean?

melon tree means "tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit".

What is another word for melon tree?

Close synonyms include papaya, papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, Carica papaya. 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 melon tree a common word?

melon tree 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.