melinite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of melinite
1885–90; < French mélinite < Greek mḗlin ( os ) made of apples (derivative of mêlon apple) + French -ite -ite 1
Example Sentences
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Eugene Turpin, 78, inventor of melinite;* of pulmonary congestion, at Pontoise, France.
From Time Magazine Archive
With melinite you know the worst at once; it doesn't hang round like boxes of ammunition, for instance.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917 by Various
Gunners say that melinite sometimes does these things.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.
Boer melinite shells aren't in it with this new compound.
From Queen Sheba's Ring by Haggard, Henry Rider
Cellars may give protection from fire or melinite; but they are worse than death traps against the heavy fumes of poisonous gas.
From America's War for Humanity by Russell, Thomas Herbert
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