melon
nounUK /ˈmelən/
US /ˈmelən/
A melon is a big, sweet fruit with a lot of juice inside.
We cut a cold melon for dessert.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A type of large round fruit with a hard skin and soft inside, such as a watermelon.
The market sells many kinds of melon in summer.
3. The head, used in a joking way.
He bumped his melon on the low door.
4. A group of animals or a company, used in old-fashioned speech.
They rode out with a fine melon of horses.