melon

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
melon/ˈmelən/

▶noun

• 1 the large round fruit of a plant of the gourd family, with sweet pulpy flesh and many seeds.

• 2 the plant which yields melons. [Cucumis melo subsp. melo.]

• 3 Zoology a waxy mass in the head of some toothed whales, thought to focus acoustic signals.

– origin ME: via OFr. from late L. melo, melon-, contr. of L. melopepo, from Gk mēlopepōn, from mēlon ‘apple’ + pepōn ‘gourd’.