melicerous

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin meliceris (“a kind of tumor”), from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“honey”) + [Term?] (“wax”).

Adjective edit

melicerous (comparative more melicerous, superlative most melicerous)

(medicine) Consisting of or containing matter like honey; said of certain encysted tumours.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)