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melligenous

melligenous adjective: having the qualities of honey.

Adjective

melligenous (comparative more melligenous, superlative most melligenous)

  1. (archaic) Having the qualities of honey.
    • melligenous fliud
    • melligenous paste

Forms of melligenous

comparativemore melligenous
superlativemost melligenous

Origin of melligenous

From Latin mel, mellis + -genous.

Questions about melligenous

What does melligenous mean?
Melligenous means having the qualities of honey.
What part of speech is melligenous?
Melligenous is an adjective.

Words near melligenous in the dictionary

  1. mellifluousness
  2. mellifluousnesses
  3. mellifulous
  4. mellify
  5. mellifying
  6. melligenous
  7. melligo
  8. melliloquent
  9. Mellin
  10. Mellin transform
  11. Mellin transforms

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