Usually means: Sweet secretion from aphids, plants.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. honeydew: Merriam-Webster
  2. honeydew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. honeydew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. honeydew: Collins English Dictionary
  5. honeydew: Vocabulary.com
  6. Honeydew, honeydew: Wordnik
  7. honeydew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. honeydew: Wiktionary
  9. honeydew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. honeydew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. honeydew: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Honeydew, honeydew: Dictionary.com
  13. honeydew: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Honeydew (album), Honeydew (color), Honeydew (disambiguation), Honeydew (melon), Honeydew (secretion), Honeydew: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Honeydew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. honeydew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. honeydew: Rhymezone
  18. Honeydew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Honeydew: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. honeydew: FreeDictionary.org
  21. honeydew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. honeydew: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. honeydew: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Honeydew (melon), honeydew: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Honeydew: HYPP Zoology
  3. Biological Control (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. honeydew: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (honeydew)

noun:  (uncountable) A sweet, sticky substance deposited on leaves and other plant parts by insects (especially aphids and scale insects) feeding on plant sap, or by fungi.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  (uncountable) A sweet liquid substance resembling the substance mentioned in sense 1, such as honey, nectar, or manna in the Bible.
noun:  (uncountable) A blackish mould (often called sooty mould) produced by fungi of the order Dothideales, feeding on the substance mentioned in sense 1.
noun:  (uncountable, originally US) In full honeydew tobacco: a fine sort of tobacco moistened with a sweet substance (originally molasses).
noun:  (uncountable) A light green colour, like the flesh of some honeydew melons.
noun:  (countable, figuratively) Something that is enjoyable or pleasant.
adjective:  Of a light green colour, like the flesh of some honeydew melons.
noun:  (countable) Short for honeydew melon (“a melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorus cultivar group, with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind”). [A melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorus cultivar group, with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind.]

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