melleous
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Etymology edit
Latin melleus (“of, pertaining to or resembling honey”), from mel (“honey”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
melleous (comparative more melleous, superlative most melleous)
- Pertaining to honey.
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
- It was the left eye that had gone. She wore over the hollow a pad that matched her suit and also a melleous wig with a tress flowing down to her cheek.