Melonic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Melon-like. not-comparable

    "He liked long hair, big bums and melonic tits."

  3. 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. 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. 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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