The English word for watermelon is watermelon,/'w?:t?mel?n/.

It's not hard to see that the word watermelon is a composite of two words, water and melon, water meaning water and melon meaning melon, melons. watermelon literally means watermelon, and watermelon is more than 92% water. Its water content in the fruit is second to none, so the English for "watermelon".

Expanded Information:

Watermelon (scientific name: Watermelon) is the most popular fruit in the world. p>Watermelon (scientific name: Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. et Nakai) is an annual trailing vine; stems and branches are stout, with conspicuous ribs. Tendrils stout, pubescent, petiole thick, densely pilose; leaf blade papery, triangular-ovate in outline, whitish green, both surfaces hispidulous, leaf blade base cordate.

Monoecious. Both female and male flowers are borne singly in the leaf axils. Male flowers: pedicel 3-4 cm long, densely yellow-brown villous; calyx tube broadly campanulate; corolla yellowish; stamens nearly free, filaments short, anther locules folded. Female flowers: calyx and corolla as in male; ovary ovate, stigma reniform.

Fruit large, subglobose or ellipsoid, fleshy, juicy, with smooth, colored and ornamented pericarp of various styles. Seeds numerous, ovate, black, red, smooth on both sides, base obtuse-rounded, usually slightly arched at the margin, flowering and fruiting in summer.

Cultivated throughout China, there are many varieties, with a variety of exocarp, pulp, and seed forms, and is best known in Xinjiang, Lanzhou, Gansu, Dezhou, Shandong, and Dongtai, Jiangsu. Its original species may come from Africa, has long been widely cultivated in the world's tropical to temperate zones, Jin, Yuan time began to be introduced to China.

Watermelon is a summer fruit, the flesh is sweet, can cool down the summer heat; seeds contain oil, can be used as a pastime food; rind medicinal use, there are heat, diuretic, blood pressure effect.

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