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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

μέλας

μέλανος

, black + [GREEK] to flow.]

(Bot.)

An East Indian genus of large trees.

Melanorrhœa usitatissima

is the lignum-vitae of Pegu (in Burma), and yields a valuable black varnish.