watermelon

Everyday

1. A large round or oval fruit with a hard green skin and sweet, juicy red or pink flesh with black seeds. tree →
2. The juicy flesh of this fruit as food. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life it is a summer fruit at picnics and barbecues. In science, it shows seeds and that watermelon is about 90 per cent water. In maths, slices of watermelon are used for fractions. Phrases: a slice of watermelon, seedless watermelon.

Examples

• We ate watermelon at the beach on a hot day. tree →
• A watermelon is mostly water. tree →
• Mum cut the watermelon into eight equal slices. tree →
• Don't swallow the seeds, spit them out. tree →
• Watermelons grow on long vines on the ground. tree →
• A whole watermelon is heavy, so carry it with two hands. tree →
• I would like some more watermelon, please. tree →
• Charley laughed, and said he would let the old man off if he would treat to a watermelon. tree →

Note

Countable for whole fruits (two watermelons), uncountable for the flesh (some watermelon). Myth: swallowing a seed will not make a watermelon grow in your tummy. In fraction problems, a watermelon cut into 8 equal slices gives each slice one eighth.