Cryptic crossword clue
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The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word *MELON*

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What does *MELON* mean?

*MELON* noun
  1. Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
  2. The fruit of such plants.
  3. A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
  4. (usually in the plural) Breasts.
  5. The head.
  6. A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
  7. A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
*MELON* adjective
  1. Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
*MELON* noun
  1. The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

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