sweet melon

Questions about sweet melon

What does sweet melon mean?

sweet melon means "any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and 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 sweet melon?

Close synonyms include muskmelon, sweet melon vine, Cucumis melo, muskmelon. 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 sweet melon a common word?

sweet melon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.