Melonic
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Pertaining to a type of complex heterocyclic triazine related to melem. not-comparable
"Melam, melem, cyameluric acid, and melonic acid form a class of solid and infusible compounds known for their extreme heat stability."
- 2 Melon-like. not-comparable
"He liked long hair, big bums and melonic tits."
- 3 Squamosal. not-comparable
"Each is marked externally by a curved groove of the neuromast system (cnm, fig. 1) which has its anterior continuation on the adjacent melonicozygomatic bone. From where it crosses the melonic-melonicozygomatic suture, this groove passes backward and upward to the center of ossification of the melonic bone; it then continues posterolaterally and downward to disappear shortly before the melonic-quadratomaxillary suture."
- 4 Alternative form of melanic. alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
"Prichard, our best authority on this subject, apportions the greater part of the habitable globe to the melonic or dark-haired races."
- 5 Pertaining to a leading order graph. not-comparable
"We prove analyticity and Borel summability in a suitable domain of the coupling constant of the simplest super-renormalizable TGFT which contains some ultraviolet divergencies, namely the color-symmetric quartic melonic rank-four model with Abelian U(1) gauge invariance, nicknamed U(1)-T⁴#95;4."
Example
More examples"Melam, melem, cyameluric acid, and melonic acid form a class of solid and infusible compounds known for their extreme heat stability."
Etymology
From melon + -ic.
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