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# honeydew

noun (honeydew — uncountable; a honeydew melon)

«honeydew» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A honeydew is a kind of melon with smooth pale skin and sweet pale-green flesh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#m1)
2. Honeydew is a sweet sticky liquid made by insects such as aphids, which ants like to eat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life, honeydew melon is a fruit in fruit salads. In science lessons, aphids suck plant sap and give out honeydew; ants farm aphids and protect them to get it, an example of animals helping each other. Honeydew makes leaves and cars under trees sticky.

### Examples

- We had honeydew melon for pudding. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x1)
- Honeydew melons are pale green inside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x2)
- Ants drink the honeydew made by aphids. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x3)
- The car under the tree was sticky with honeydew. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x4)
- Bees sometimes collect honeydew to make honey. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x5)
- Cut the honeydew into cubes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/#x6)

### Note

One word. A honeydew or a honeydew melon. The insect honeydew is uncountable. It is not dew and not made by bees, though bees can collect it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «honeydew» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeydew/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«honeydew» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/honeydew.html) on Mova free.