melicerous
English
editEtymology
editLatin meliceris (“a kind of tumor”), from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“honey”) + [Term?] (“wax”).
Adjective
editmelicerous (comparative more melicerous, superlative most melicerous)
- (medicine) Consisting of or containing matter like honey; said of certain encysted tumours.
- melicerous tumors
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “melicerous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)