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
And with it all there is the melinite and the shrapnel.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by Steevens, G. W. (George Warrington)
That shell will be cherished after extraction of its fuse and melinite charge.
From Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith by Pearse, H. H. S. (Henry Hiram Steere)
The vibration will cause any unstable substance such as melinite to explode.”
From Signal in the Dark by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)
Explosive shells of melinite are the leading idea in France.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
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