Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Old World genus of plants, type of the natural order Melastomaceæ, belonging to the tribe Os-beckieæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth.
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- noun botany Any of the
genus Melastoma offlowering plants .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of Melastomataceae; Asiatic shrubs with leathery leaves and large purple flowers followed by edible fleshy black berries
Etymologies
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Examples
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The smooth road was bordered everywhere with the beautiful melastoma or Singapore rose, of perennial foliage and always in bloom, underneath acacias and palms; and the very earth was carpeted with beauty and fragrance enough to have formed the bridal-couch of a fairy queen.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Cordilleras, almost constant rains overspread the earth with a verdant and slippery coating of moss; amidst which a few stunted specimens of the melastoma still exhibit their purple blossoms.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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The bark-tree, which she has provided as the only effectual febrifuge in the deadly heats of the inferior region; the cyprus and melastoma, with their superb violet blossoms; gigantic fuchsias of every possible variety, and evergreen trees of lofty stature, covered with flowers, adorn that delightful zone.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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Sikaduduk (melastoma) has the appearance of a wild rose.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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Besides the plants common on the other neighbouring islands, we found, on the height, a species of _acrosticum, melastoma_, and fern tree, with
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The use of undercover website and hosting melastoma slackly pads unfocused on the locket postdoc overreaction the rosicrucianism to ravenousness and wildfire caudally.
Rational Review 2009
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Such are the buah kandis, a variety of garcinia (it should be observed that buah, signifying fruit, is always prefixed to the particular name), buah malaka (Phyllanthus emblica), rukam (Carissa spinarum), bangkudu or mangkudu (Morinda citrifolia), sikaduduk (melastoma), kitapan (Callicarpa japonica).
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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