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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MELANORRHOEA

Mel `a *nor *rhoe "a, n. Etym: [NL. , fr. Gr. (Bot. )

 

Defn: An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrhoea usitatissima is the lignum-vitæ of Peru, and yelds a valuable black varnish.