Vocabulary : Melanconiales to Melanite

Melanconiales : The smallest of the three orders of Fungi Imperfecti, including those with no asci nor pycnidia, but as a rule having the spores in cavities without special walls. They cause many of the plant diseases known as anthracnose.
Melanesian : Of or pertaining to Melanesia.
Melange : A mixture; a medley.
Melanian : One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.
Melanic : Melanotic. ;; Of or pertaining to the black-haired races.

Melaniline : A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl guanidin.
Melanin : A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin, in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.
Melanism : An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism. ;; A disease; black jaundice. See Mel/na. ;; The character of having a high degree of pigmentation, as shown in dark skin, eyes, and hair.
Melanistic : Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.
Melanite : A black variety of garnet.

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