From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwatermelonwa‧ter‧mel‧on /ˈwɔːtəˌmelən $ ˈwɒːtər-, ˈwɑː-/ noun [countable, uncountable] DFFa large round fruit with hard green skin, red flesh, and black seeds
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watermelon• Jack put the gun in my hands, and I held it like a watermelon.• It's worth splurging on, at least once, just to experience watermelon through a straw.• Next to them was a huge watermelon and a bowl of green figs.• Stretching up to a paint-peeling house was a patch of watermelons and tomatoes.• Rubbed our souls for soothing: tip tongued slurring for sure over ripe watermelons.• It turned out to be the food market, where they sold swollen watermelons and aubergines and strange shaped fruits.• Mr Grange lurks like a big spider in the deep shade at the back of the produce stand beside the watermelons. 