melon

Everyday

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 →

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.

In Jewish tradition

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

• We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (Torah NUM.11.5, JPS 1917) 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.