honeydew

«honeydew» in Mova's school dictionary: a kind of melon with smooth pale skin and sweet… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (honeydew — uncountable; a honeydew melon)

meaning for a pupil

1) A honeydew is a kind of melon with smooth pale skin and sweet pale-green flesh. tree →

2) Honeydew is a sweet sticky liquid made by insects such as aphids, which ants like to eat. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, honeydew melon is a fruit in fruit salads. In science lessons, aphids suck plant sap and give out honeydew; ants farm aphids and protect them to get it, an example of animals helping each other. Honeydew makes leaves and cars under trees sticky.

examples

• We had honeydew melon for pudding. tree →
• Honeydew melons are pale green inside. tree →
• Ants drink the honeydew made by aphids. tree →
• The car under the tree was sticky with honeydew. tree →
• Bees sometimes collect honeydew to make honey. tree →
• Cut the honeydew into cubes. tree →

note

One word. A honeydew or a honeydew melon. The insect honeydew is uncountable. It is not dew and not made by bees, though bees can collect it.

In the corpora

• Some ants guard aphids from ladybirds and stroke them for sweet honeydew, and some keep aphid eggs in the nest over winter.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «honeydew» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.