The word 'watermelon' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the fruit and its associated color, flavor, and texture. For example: "My favorite summer treat is a juicy watermelon and some salty feta cheese."
This year, the nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Lausanne, which are entering a critical phase ahead of a major deadline, are being debated over dried fruits, pistachio nuts and watermelon seeds.
While the fireworks outside the tallest building in western Europe didn't really deliver, the tiny canapés – including watermelon and chicken, since you ask – and fruity non-alcoholic beverages did.
There are also those who have bought into the watermelon argument that environmentalists are green on the outside, red on the inside and that climate change is just an excuse to bring in socialism by another name.
When I visited the abandoned prison late this summer, a group of disinterested Iraqi forces sat at a checkpoint on the main road to Baghdad, eating watermelon as the distant rumble of shellfire sounded in the distance.
Breakfast might be shakshouka (eggs cooked with tomatoes and peppers) and fruit salad served in a whole watermelon with a lid cut in the top.
Reading her account of the way great apes have been taught to use sign language, and about the phrases they have coined for things absent from their acquired vocabulary, it seems that it is humans who lose out.Chimpanzees have called watermelon "drink fruit", a hot radish "hurt-cry food", Alka-Seltzer a "listen drink" and a Brazil nut "rock berry".
Reportedly this shambolic pachyderm can throw a playing card through the rind of a watermelon at a distance of ten paces".Redbelt", Mr Mamet's new film, premieres tomorrow night.
LIKE many rural teenagers, Yan Jingtao, the lanky son of a watermelon farmer, did not have quite the stuff for a standard upper-secondary school.
Give consumers something as unusual as Seminis's mini-watermelon, downsized but not by GM to suit one person, not eight, and they may realise they are already in the biotech era, and over time lose their fear of GM.Well, perhaps, though enemies of GM argue persuasively that Europeans already know very well that their food results from cross-breeding, but still think GM a step too far.
Whether this variety exists to attract the fish or the fisherman has been the subject of much debate.In this section Watching your driving Flown the coop The one that didn't get away Dying for it Mind the remote ReprintsThe difference between watermelon-red and bubble-gum pink might actually matter, says Culum Brown, who studies fish cognition at Macquarie University in Australia.
The only items on show from the tomb itself are handfuls of seeds almonds, persea and watermelon that were buried for the king's spirit to use in the afterlife (and which are kept in the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew).The rest of the show is more patchy.
