honeydew

English

Etymology

honey +‎ dew

Pronunciation

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Noun

honeydew (countable and uncountable, plural honeydews)

1. A sweet sticky substance deposited on leaves by insects.
2. A sweet sticky substance produced by the leaves of some plants.
3. (countable) A melon with sweet green flesh, with a smooth greenish-white exterior, of cultivar group .
4. A light bluish-green colour, like that of a honeydew melon.

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5. A fine sort of tobacco moistened with molasses.

Synonyms

• (fruit): honeydew melon

Translations

a sweet sticky substance deposited on leaves by insects

• Finnish: mesikaste (fi)
• French: miellat (fr) f
• German: Honigtau (de) m
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• Polish: spadź (pl) f, rosa miodowa (pl) f
• Russian: медвя́ная роса́ (ru) f (medvjánaja rosá)

a sweet sticky substance produced by the leaves of some plants

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜜露 (zh) (mìlù)

• Finnish: mesikaste (fi)
• French: miellat (fr) f
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• German: Honigtau (de) m
• Japanese: 甘露 (かんろ, kanro)
• Korean: 감로 (甘露, gamro)
• Russian: медвя́ная роса́ (ru) f (medvjánaja rosá)

a melon with sweet green flesh

• Bulgarian: медена роса f (medena rosa)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蜜瓜 (mat⁶ gwaa¹)

  Mandarin: 白蘭瓜／白兰瓜 (zh) (báilánguā), 蘭州蜜瓜／兰州蜜瓜 (Lánzhōu mìguā), 蜜瓜 (zh) (mìguā)

• Finnish: hunajameloni (fi)
• French: melon miel (fr)
• German: Honigmelone (de) f
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گِڕکە (girrke)

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• Malay: tembikai susu
• Navajo: taʼneeskʼání łigai
• Polish: melon spadziowy m
• Russian: муска́тная ды́ня f (muskátnaja dýnja)
• Slovene: dinja f
• Tagalog: melong lunti
• Turkish: tatlı ve sulu kavun
• Yiddish: צעסאַרקע f (tsesarke)

Adjective

honeydew (comparative more honeydew, superlative most honeydew)

1. Of a light bluish green colour, like that of a honeydew melon.

Related terms

• mildew

See also

• Appendix:Colors

References

• “honeydew”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.