Melon
[ˈmɛlən]Meaning
a plant of the gourd family with sweet, fleshy fruit; from Greek mēlopepōn
Background Story
The word melon comes from Latin melopepo, a latinization of the Greek mēlopepōn, itself a compound of mēlon, meaning "apple" or tree fruit, and pepōn, a kind of gourd or melon. In English it denotes any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, fleshy fruit, or specifically Cucumis melo, the true melon, and applies to both the plant and its fruit. The sources checked do not record it as a personal name.
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