melampode
English edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek μελάμπους (melámpous), from μέλᾱς (mélās, “black”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
melampode (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The black hellebore.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:
- Here growes melampode every where
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “melampode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)