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# watermelon

noun (a watermelon, watermelons; watermelon — the flesh, uncountable)

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

## Everyday

1. A large round or oval fruit with a hard green skin and sweet, juicy red or pink flesh with black seeds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#m1)
2. The juicy flesh of this fruit as food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life it is a summer fruit at picnics and barbecues. In science, it shows seeds and that watermelon is about 90 per cent water. In maths, slices of watermelon are used for fractions. Phrases: a slice of watermelon, seedless watermelon.

### Examples

- We ate watermelon at the beach on a hot day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x1)
- A watermelon is mostly water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x2)
- Mum cut the watermelon into eight equal slices. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x3)
- Don't swallow the seeds, spit them out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x4)
- Watermelons grow on long vines on the ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x5)
- A whole watermelon is heavy, so carry it with two hands. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x6)
- I would like some more watermelon, please. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x7)
- Charley laughed, and said he would let the old man off if he would treat to a watermelon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermelon/#x8)

### Note

Countable for whole fruits (two watermelons), uncountable for the flesh (some watermelon). Myth: swallowing a seed will not make a watermelon grow in your tummy. In fraction problems, a watermelon cut into 8 equal slices gives each slice one eighth.

## On Mova

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