Word Meanings - WATERMELON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a native of tropical Africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. See Illust. of Melon.

• COLORADOGROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• Color-blind
  Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
• Illustrating
  of Illustrate
• Large-handed
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• Plantable
  Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
• Plantule
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• Sweetly
  In a sweet manner.
• COLORBLIND
  Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
• Colorific
  Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
• Fruitage
  Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.
• Illustrate
  To make clear, bright, or luminous.
• Large-hearted
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.
• Plantage
  A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
• Sweetmeat
  Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• Colorimeter
  An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
• Fruiter
  A ship for carrying fruit.

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