Melon
in botany, Cucumis melo.
Linnæus, who discriminated it from others of the genus by the angular points of the leaves being rounded off and its torulose, i. e., knotted, fruit, says that it is a native of the Kalmuck country (in Tartary).
MELOS (mē'los) (Italian Milo), a Greek island, the most S. W. of the Cyclades; length 13 miles, width 8 miles.
The island is volcanic, and produces sulphur, salt, pumice stone, stucco, millstones, and a little oil and wine. Among the ruins of the ancient city of Melos, and near its theater, was found the price less antique, the Venus de Milo, now one of the chief treasures of the Louvre.
Pop. about 5,000.
MELPOMENE (mel-pom'e-ne), one of the nine muses who presided over tragedy. She is represented as having the form and face of a woman still young, with a commanding mien, and richly dressed. On her feet are the cothurnus; in one hand she holds a poniard and in the other a tragic mask. the defeat of the latter; and among its natives have been Archbishop de Melton, who lies buried in the church, and "Orator" Henley.