Main Difference
The main difference between Melon and Muskmelon is that the Melon is a fruit and Muskmelon is a species of plant
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Melon
A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet edible, fleshy fruit. The word “melon” can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit. Botanically, a melon is a kind of berry, specifically a “pepo”. The word melon derives from Latin melopepo, which is the latinization of the Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopepōn), meaning “melon”, itself a compound of μῆλον (mēlon), “apple, treefruit (of any kind)” and πέπων (pepōn), amongst others “a kind of gourd or melon”. Many different cultivars have been produced, particularly of cantaloupes.
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Muskmelon
Muskmelon (Cucumis melo) is a species of melon that has been developed into many cultivated varieties. These include smooth-skinned varieties such as honeydew, Crenshaw, and casaba, and different netted cultivars (cantaloupe, Persian melon, and Santa Claus or Christmas melon). The Armenian cucumber is also a variety of muskmelon, but its shape, taste, and culinary uses more closely resemble those of a cucumber. The large number of cultivars in this species approaches that found in wild cabbage, though morphological variation is not as extensive. It is a fruit of a type called pepo.
Muskmelon is native to Iran, Anatolia and the Caucasus, with a secondary center including northwest India (Hindi: कचरी Kachri) and Afghanistan.
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Melon (noun)
Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
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Melon (noun)
Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.
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Melon (noun)
Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
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Melon (noun)
Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
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Melon (noun)
The fruit of such plants.
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Melon (noun)
A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
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Melon (noun)
Breasts.
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Melon (noun)
The head.
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Melon (noun)
A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
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Melon (noun)
A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
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Melon (noun)
The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.
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Melon (adjective)
Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
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Muskmelon (noun)
A cantaloupe, a type of melon, noshow=1 (cantaloupe group), with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting.
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Melon (noun)
the large round fruit of a plant of the gourd family, with sweet pulpy flesh and many seeds
“a slice of melon”
“a ripe melon will smell sweet”
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Melon (noun)
a woman’s breasts.
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Melon (noun)
the Old World plant which yields the melon.
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Melon (noun)
a waxy mass in the head of dolphins and other toothed whales, thought to focus acoustic signals.