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
They’d have to invent a rocket apparatus for shying melinite shells aloft.”
From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang
Explosive shells of melinite are the leading idea in France.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
You see, we have six ships here in line abreast, and twelve guns, each throwing a melinite shell of not less than a hundred pounds, are trained on the face of the building.
From The World Masters by George Chetwynd Griffith
You come out of the dust and the stench of melinite, not knowing where you were, hardlyPg 133 knowing whether you were hit—only knowing that the next was rushing on its way.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens
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