Melon, pronounced as guā, refers to the spherical or oval fruit produced by creeping plants, which can be divided into vegetable melon and fruit melon, belonging to Cucurbitaceae. Edible fruits: watermelon, wax gourd, melon pedicle, potato (like cutting melon, such as "dividing the world"), lotus, melon substitute, melon plum (referring to doubt) and melon seeds.