Usually means: Spiny, round cactus with fruit.
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  1. melon cactus: Merriam-Webster
  2. melon-cactus, melon cactus: Wordnik
  3. melon cactus: Wiktionary
  4. Melon cactus: Dictionary.com
  5. melon cactus: FreeDictionary.org
  6. Melon cactus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (melon cactus)

noun:  Any of the genus Melocactus of cacti, distinguished when mature by their cephalium, a wool- and bristle-coated structure at the apex, containing a mass of areoles from which the small flowers grow.

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