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Definition of Melaleuca
1. Noun. (botany) Any member of the genus ''Melaleuca'' of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Melaleuca
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Melaleuca
Literary usage of Melaleuca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forestry Handbook by R. Dalrymple Hay, Joseph Henry Maiden (1917)
"melaleuca, from two Greek words—melas (black), and leul-os (white), because the
trunk of the first tree described was black and the branches white. ..."
2. The Chemistry of Essential Oils and Artificial Perfumes by Ernest John Parry (1908)
"'925 175°-180° + 1° 40' melaleuca leucadendron rnr. land/alia . ... -892 - 15°
20' melaleuca thymifolia . -9184 172°-214° + 2° 6' Myrtle Oil. ..."
3. The London Journal of Botany by William Jackson Hooker (1842)
"Certainly distinct from P. melaleuca. I send my only " duplicate, but hope to
get more next year. It is a most " singularly lurid-looking plant." III. ..."
4. The Technologist (1863)
"... THE GENERA EUCALYPTUS AND melaleuca, SUITABLE FOR GENERAL APPLICATION IN THE
ARTS. • These oils, consisting of nineteen varieties, have properties which ..."
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