melon seed

noun

1. a small, broad, shallow boat for sailing or rowing, formerly used by hunters in various bays and marshes along the coast of New Jersey.

Example Sentences

Her new store, Nneji, in Astoria, Queens, has a limited menu, for takeaway, featuring West African red stew with chicken, peppery yassa with chicken, egusi melon seed and spinach soup with salmon, and a spinach and okra dish.

From New York Times

For years, she has set beauty ideals, and plastic surgery requests, with her aquiline nose, large eyes, and “melon seed”-shaped oval face.

From The Guardian

Melon seed is the most unusual of the lot, packed with vegetables.

From New York Times

Now, finally, he can not only stomach it, he has come to adore it for the depth of flavouring it brings to his favourite egusi or melon seed soup.

From BBC

“When we feel you need the information, that’s when you get to know it. Don’t get any ideas about going over the fence, either. The top wire has enough power to spit you back like a melon seed. Here are the salt mountains.”

From Literature