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Definition: Honeydew |
HoneydewNoun1. The fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth-skinned greenish-white melon with pale green flesh. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "honeydew" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Honeydew A sweet substance found on lime-trees and some other plants. Bees and ants are fond of it. It is a curious misnomer, as it is the excretion of the aphis or vine-fretter. The way it is excreted is this: the ant beats with its antennae the abdomen of the aphis, which lifts up the part beaten, and excretes a limpid drop of seet juice called honeydew. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term honedew has more than one meaning.
- The honeydew is a type of edible melon (Family Cucurbitaceae) — a cultivar, of the species Cucumis melo L. subspecies melo L., which includes as other cultivars, the cantaloupe, casaba, musk mellon, and several ornamental gourds.
- Honeydew is a sugar-rich secretion of certain plant-sucking insects such as aphids and scale. Ants and wasps may eat honeydew, while honeybees gather it and process it into a dark, strong honey that is highly prized in parts of Europe and Asia for its reputed medicinal value.
- "Honeydoos" is a pun that refers to a weekend list of projects given to a husband by his wife.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Honeydew."
Synonym: HoneydewSynonym: honeydew melon (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Honeydew |
| English words defined with "honeydew": Ant-cattle ♦ Melligo ♦ Siphonet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "honeydew": Misnomers. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller) | |
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 | Arturo Iabarra, NRCS District Conservationist, Rio Grande City, TX, discusses NRCS assistance with Starr County landowner who grows honeydew melons, which are in the harvest stage. [Slide 97CS3025]. Credit: Ken Hammond. |  | Honeydew melons grown on the farm of Ernest W. Kirk, Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, near Ordway, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fruits of the soil on farm of Ernest W. Kirk Jr. ,FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Ordway, Colorado. Shown in the picture are sugar beets, honeydew melon, hybrid corn, successfully grown stringbeans and kaffir corn in background. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, with honeydew melons grown on his farm near Ordway, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, amidst the honeydew melons which he is raising on his farm this year. Near Ordway, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Honeydew 2" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Honeydew melon." |
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| "Honeydew" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Honeydew" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
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Expression using "honeydew": honeydew melon. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
honeydew | 43 |
honeydew melon | 22 |
honeydew donuts | 16 |
honeydew ca | 9 |
bunsen honeydew | 6 |
bunsen dr honeydew | 4 |
honeydew lingerie | 3 |
honeydew california | 3 |
bunsen dr honeydew picture | 2 |
honeydew melon picture | 2 |
attic honeydew mold sticky | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "honeydew"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nektar (nectar), mjaltë insektesh gjethengrënëse. (various references) | |
Chinese | 甘露. (various references) | |
Danish | honningdug (honey dew). (various references) | |
Dutch | honingdauw (honey dew). (various references) | |
Farsi | عسلک , شهدنباتی , شهدگیاهی , شبنم انگبینی . (various references) | |
Finnish | mesikaste (honey dew). (various references) | |
French | miellat (honey dew). (various references) | |
German | Honigtau (honey dew). (various references) | |
Greek | μελιτώδης εξίδρυση των φύλλων (honey dew), μελιτώδης (honey dew), μελιτώδεις εκκρίσεις (honey dew), μελίτωση (honey dew). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צוף (mead, nectar, sweet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mézharmat, édesített dohány. (various references) | |
Italian | miellato (honey dew), melata (honey dew). (various references) | |
Manx | tombaacey millish, millchay, druight molley. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oneydewhay.(various references) | |
Russian | медвяная роса. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta dinje (cantaloupe), medljika (blight). (various references) | |
Spanish | melera (honey dew), melazo (honey dew). (various references) | |
Swedish | honungsdagg (honey dew). (various references) | |
Thai | แตงเนื้อขาวชนิดหนึ่งที่มีรสหวาน (มีชื่อในภาษาละตินว่า Cucumis melon) (honeydew melon). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaprak özsuyu, tatlı ve sulu kavun (honeydew melon), tatlı tütün, tatlı özsu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | mildeaw. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "honeydew": honeydews. (additional references) | |
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"Honeydew" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: honeyd, Honeydon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-n-o-w-y" | |
-1 letter: honeyed. | |
-2 letters: hoyden. | |
-3 letters: donee, downy, doyen, endow, hewed, honed, honey, howdy, needy, owned, weedy, weeny, wheen, yowed. | |
-4 letters: dene, deny, dewy, dhow, done, down, dyne, enow, eyed, eyen, eyne, heed, hewn, hoed, hone, howe, need, node, ohed, owed, weed, ween, wend, whee, when, whey, wynd, yodh, yond, yowe. | |
-5 letters: dee, den, dew, dey, doe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-n-o-w-y" | |
+1 letter: honeydews. | |
+5 letters: downheartedly, wrongheadedly. | |
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