Plural of melon; large round fruits with hard skin and sweet, watery flesh inside.
From Latin 'melopepo,' which comes from Greek 'melon' (apple) + 'pepon' (gourd). The name originally just meant 'large fruit' in general.
Melons are one of the oldest cultivated fruits—ancient Egyptians grew them 4,000 years ago and even included them in burial chambers for the afterlife, showing how important this fruit was to civilization.
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