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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh [syn: honeydew, honeydew melon]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1577 1. a saccharine deposit secreted on the leaves of plants usually by aphids or scale insects or sometimes by a fungus 2. honeydew melon

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a sweet sticky substance found on leaves and stems, excreted by aphids. 2 a variety of melon with smooth pale skin and sweet green flesh. 3 an ideally sweet substance. 4 tobacco sweetened with molasses.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Honeydew Hon"ey*dew`, n. 1. A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids. 2. A kind of tobacco moistened with molasses.