melonless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without melons.
Example Sentences
- "August court is known as “watermelon court,” the reason being much in evidence all around the public square. The color scheme is red, white, and green, with black for variation. In 1901—the first time in many years—August court was melonless, owing to lateness of the crop."
- "[A]nyone who has ever experienced a Georgia watermelon—knows that it is a luxury par excellence! It is a luxury and a necessity at one and the same time; for, show us the man or woman, boy or girl—regardless of color—who, having acquired the Georgia melon habit in past “melon-times,” would not elect almost any other sacrifice in preference to a melonless season!"
- "These orbital cultural pressures are what you would expect – this is a relatively low-self-esteem, ingredient-thin bit of Europe, hemmed in by other cultures with access to serious sunlight: it is melonless, basilless, oliveless."