Main Difference
The main difference between Melon and Muskmelon is that the Melon is a fruit and Muskmelon is a species of plant
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.
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.
Melon (noun)
Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
Melon (noun)
Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.
Melon (noun)
Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
Melon (noun)
Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
Melon (noun)
The fruit of such plants.
Melon (noun)
A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
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Melon (noun)
Breasts.
Melon (noun)
The head.
Melon (noun)
A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
Melon (noun)
A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
Melon (noun)
The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.
Melon (adjective)
Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
Muskmelon (noun)
A cantaloupe, a type of melon, noshow=1 (cantaloupe group), with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting.
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”
Melon (noun)
a woman’s breasts.
Melon (noun)
the Old World plant which yields the melon.
Melon (noun)
a waxy mass in the head of dolphins and other toothed whales, thought to focus acoustic signals.