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Honeydew   /hˈənidˌu/   Listen
Honeydew

noun
1.
The fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh.  Synonym: honeydew melon.






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"Honeydew" Quotes from Famous Books



... with cracked ice) and honeydew melon (it is smart to accompany the latter with a slice of lemon) are served in halves or quarters, on fruit plates (or special melon dishes) and eaten with a fruit spoon. Sugar, salt and pepper should be offered with these by the waitress. Watermelon is usually cut in wedges or circles. ...
— Prepare and Serve a Meal and Interior Decoration • Lillian B. Lansdown

... whereon the rose Like a streak of morning glows; Where the azure-throated newt Drowses on the twisted root; And the brown bees, humming homeward, Stop to suck the honeydew; Fern- and leaf-hid, gleaming gloamward, Drips the wildwood spring I knew, Drips the ...
— Poems • Madison Cawein

... of the area door. At this moment we are without a domestic. I found she compensated herself for disadvantages by stealing my tobacco and cigars. She went to work with such a lack of discretion—abstracting half a pound of honeydew at a time—that I couldn't find any sympathy for her. Moreover, when charged with the delinquency, she became abusive, so very abusive that we were obliged to insist upon ...
— The Odd Women • George Gissing



Words linked to "Honeydew" :   winter melon



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