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Melanoscope
- - An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.
Melanosperm
- - An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp.
Melanterite
- - A hydrous sulphate of iron of a green color and vitreous luster; iron vitriol.
Melba Toast
- noun - very thin crisp brown toast
Meles Meles
- noun - a variety of badger native to Europe and Asia
Melic Grass
- - A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance.
Meliorating
- verb - get better; "The weather improved toward evening"
- to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
Melioration
- noun - a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement"
- the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
- the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning
Meliorative
- adjective - tending to ameliorate