MELON

Melon

The melon is a mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales and serves to focus and modulate the animal's vocalizations like a sound lens. It is thus a key organ involved in communication and echolocation.

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melon

Noun

  1. Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
    1. Genus Cucurbita, various musk melons, including the honeydew and the canteloupes, and the horned melon.
    2. Genus , the watermelon and others
    3. Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
    4. Genus , the bitter melon
  2. The fruit of such plants.
  3. A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
  4. Breasts.
  5. The head.
  6. A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
  7. A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

Adjective

  1. Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.


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