About The Word Melastoma

Bay Area Crosswords

Learn about the word Melastoma to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Melastoma definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

Melastoma

Melastoma Meaning & Definition
Melastoma Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Melastoma?

[n] type genus of Melastomataceae; Asiatic shrubs with leathery leaves and large purple flowers followed by edible fleshy black berries

Synonyms | Synonyms for Melastoma: genus Melastoma

Related Terms | Find terms related to Melastoma:

See Also | family Melastomaceae | family Melastomataceae | meadow-beauty family | Melastomaceae | Melastomataceae | rosid dicot genus

Melastoma In Webster's Dictionary

\Me*las"to*ma\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`las black + ? mouth.] (Bot.) A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

  • Perfect ‐ a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed…
  • Domain ‐ a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating…
  • Consent decree ‐ an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court;…
  • Signatory ‐ someone who signs and is bound by…
  • Hunting license ‐ a license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal…
  • Genus hermannia ‐ genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped…
  • Portico ‐ a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and…
  • Unaffiliated ‐ not…
  • Multiple regression ‐ a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable…
  • Xor gate ‐ gate for exclusive OR; a circuit in a computer that fires only…