GLOSSARY TERMS - 'W'

Watermelon:

A popular fruit that grows on ground vines in a number of varieties of shapes and sizes, all round and fairly large. Watermelons could range in shape from round to elongated, weigh from 8 to 32 pounds and be filled with seeds or seedless. They have a thick rind that surrounds a range of the flesh colors from pink to dark red and yellow. Some of the common types of melons are all sweet, crimson sweet, iceboxes, jubilee, seedless, and even yellow flesh. The icebox melon is round in shape, weighs from 5 to 15 pounds, and contains a red or yellow flesh.