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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or derived from mellite or honey-stone.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions.
  • adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the mineral mellite.
  • adjective (Chem.) a white, crystalline, organic substance, C6(CO2H)6, occurring naturally in combination with aluminium in the mineral mellite, and produced artificially by the oxidation of coal, graphite, etc., and hence called also graphitic acid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to honey or sugar
  • adjective Of or pertaining to mellite

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