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- English Word Melanochroi Definition A group of the human race, including the dark whites.
- English Word Melanochroic Definition Having a dark complexion; of or pertaining to the Melanochroi.
- English Word Melanochroite Definition A mineral of a red, or brownish or yellowish red color. It is a chromate of lead; -- called also phoenicocroite.
- English Word Melanocomous Definition Having very dark or black hair; black-haired.
- English Word Melanorrhoea Definition An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrh/a usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu, and yelds a valuable black varnish.
- English Word Melanoscope Definition An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.
- English Word Melanosis Definition The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors.
- English Word Melanosperm Definition An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp.
- English Word Melanotic Definition Melanistic.
- English Word Melanotype Definition A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture.
- English Word Melanterite Definition A hydrous sulphate of iron of a green color and vitreous luster; iron vitriol.
- English Word Melanure Definition A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).
- English Word Melanuric Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid obtained by decomposition of melam, or of urea, as a white crystalline powder; -- called also melanurenic acid.
- English Word Melaphyre Definition Any one of several dark-colored augitic, eruptive rocks allied to basalt.
- English Word Melasma Definition A dark discoloration of the skin, usually local; as, Addison's melasma, or Addison's disease.
- English Word Melasses Definition See Molasses.
- English Word Melassic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from molasses or glucose, and probably identical with saccharic acid. See Saccharic.
- English Word Melastoma Definition A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth.
- English Word Melastomaceous Definition Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type.
- English Word Melchite Definition One of a sect, chiefly in Syria and Egypt, which acknowledges the authority of the pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church.