Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dicotyledonous polypetalous plants of the natural order Meliaceæ and the tribe Melieæ, characterized by pinnate leaves, an elongated stamentube, and from 10 to 12 anthers.
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- noun type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash
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Reid To Bush: If You Come After Us, We'll Hit Back Every Bit As Aggressively 2009
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Gavjo, and Dani, melia is in france! lol.kidding. she's in DLAND!! wooot!
short notice freakymandy 2003
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Rumor soon had him flootered to the eyeballs, cursing melia murder and clawing at posters till his nails were raw and his fingers raddled with blood.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Rumor soon had him flootered to the eyeballs, cursing melia murder and clawing at posters till his nails were raw and his fingers raddled with blood.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Hey, Aye-melia, you wanna play softball on the bureau team?
The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002
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The flowers of the parterres of Europe grow by the side of the gayer plants and shrubs of the country, shaded by the orange, banana, bread-fruit (now nearly naturalised here,) and the palms, between straight alleys of limes, over whose heads the African melia waves its lilac blossoms; and on the raised water channels, china vases are placed, filled with aloes and tuberoses, and here and there a statue intermixed.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham
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Miller is the old Norse melia, our mill and maul, and means a mauler or fighter.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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The mock-bird (_Turdus polyglotta_) pipes from the top of the tallest magnolia; and his cousin, the red-breast (_Turdus migratorius_), half intoxicated with the berries of the _melia_, rivals him in his sweet song.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850
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A kind of tree, called the "pride of India," (_melia azedarach_,) is planted, in rows, along the foot-paths and the streets of Charleston.
Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe William Bingley 1798
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