melon

«melon» in Mova's school dictionary: a big round or oval fruit with a hard skin and a sweet… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (melon, melons)

meaning for a pupil

1) A melon is a big round or oval fruit with a hard skin and a sweet, juicy inside full of seeds. tree →

2) Watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew are kinds of melon. tree →

sense in the lessons

fruit counted, weighed, sold or cut into equal slices; in everyday life a summer fruit for picnics; in science a fruit that grows on a vine and is mostly water

examples

• A melon costs 3 dollars. tree →
• She cut the melon into 8 slices. tree →
• The farmer sold 40 melons. tree →
• Each melon weighs 2 kg. tree →
• We ate cold watermelon at the beach. tree →
• A melon grows on a long vine on the ground. tree →
• Scoop out the seeds before you eat the melon. tree →
• Tom spat a melon seed across the yard. tree →

note

Counted fruit or weight per melon. Cutting into slices points to division or fractions. Trap: slices are parts, not whole melons. Countable: a melon, two melons; «some melon» means some pieces of it.

Trees and pragmatics

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