Melon /(mĕl"ŭn)/

Mel·on

Melon

n.
  1. The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit. (Bot.)
  2. A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo. (Zool.)

Phrases & Compounds
Melon beetle
a small leaf beetle (Diabrotiea vittata), which damages the leaves of melon vines.
Melon cactus
A genus of cactaceous plants (Melocactus) having a fleshy and usually globose stem with the surface divided into spiny longitudinal ridges, and bearing at the top a prickly and woolly crown in which the small pink flowers are half concealed