a large, usu round or oval fruit with a hard rind, sweet juicy edible flesh and a central cavity packed with many seeds
the plant of the cucumber family that bears this fruit: Cucumis melo
a waxy mass in the head of some whales and dolphins that is believed to focus sound signals
[Middle English via French from late Latin melon-, melo, short for Latin melopepon-, melopepo, from Greek mēlopepōn, from mēlon apple + pepōn an edible gourd]