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the melon that waits until the third snack tray, hoping you've lowered your standards.
means A pale-green, smooth-skinned variety of melon with sweet, mild flesh; the word also refers to a sugary secretion left on plants by aphids.
from A transparent compound of "honey" and "dew" — literally "honey-dew," the sweet sticky film that appears on leaves, named centuries ago when people thought it fell from the sky like a sugary dew (it's actually aphid excretion, but the romantic name stuck). The melon borrowed the name later, presumably for its sweetness; "honey" traces back through Old English hunig to ancient Germanic roots, and "dew" likewise from Old English dēaw, a word old enough that its cousins scatter across the Germanic languages.
- fruit salad
- Always the survivor left in the bowl
- ripeness
- Skin turns creamy yellow, never green-perfect
- sugar
- One of the sweetest melons by sugar content
- name origin
- Likely from French melon de miel, honey melon
- insect link
- Honeydew also means sticky aphid excretion, unrelated
honeydew melon — pale green netted melon with sweet flesh, major crop in california's central valley
honeydew insect secretion — sticky sweet liquid excreted by aphids and scale insects, collected by ants and bees