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meliaceous

Meaning of "meliaceous" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MELIACEOUS

From New Latin Melia type genus, from Greek: ash.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF MELIACEOUS

ˌmiːlɪˈeɪʃɪəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MELIACEOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Meliaceous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MELIACEOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of meliaceous in the English dictionary

The definition of meliaceous in the dictionary is of, relating to, or belonging to the Meliaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical trees, including mahogany, some of which yield valuable timber.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MELIACEOUS

alias · Aquarius · croceous · curious · galimatias · genius · hilarious · Ignatius · Lucretius · Manutius · Mencius · menthaceous · miscellaneous · obvious · prescious · previous · Propertius · serious · Statius · various

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MELIACEOUS

melena · melic · melic grass · melick · melicotton · melilite · Melilla · melilot · melinite · meliorable · meliorate · melioration · meliorative · meliorator · meliorism · meliorist · melioristic · meliority · meliphagous · melisma

WORDS THAT END LIKE MELIACEOUS

arenaceous · argillaceous · carbonaceous · chartaceous · coriaceous · cretaceous · crustaceous · curvaceous · diatomaceous · farinaceous · gorgeous · herbaceous · micaceous · olivaceous · predaceous · proteinaceous · sebaceous · siliceous · the Cretaceous · tuffaceous · violaceous

Synonyms and antonyms of meliaceous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «meliaceous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MELIACEOUS

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The translations of meliaceous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «meliaceous» in English.
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meliaceous
1,325 millions of speakers
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meliáceo
570 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
510 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
380 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
280 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
278 millions of speakers
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meliácea
270 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
260 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
220 millions of speakers
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Meliaceous
190 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
180 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
130 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
85 millions of speakers
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Meliaceous
85 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
80 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
75 millions of speakers
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मेलिसेस
75 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
70 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
65 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
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meliaceous
40 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
30 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
15 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
14 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
10 millions of speakers
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meliaceous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of meliaceous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MELIACEOUS»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELIACEOUS»

Discover the use of meliaceous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to meliaceous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The neem tree: Azadirachta indica A. Juss. and other ...
Other important uses of neem tree products are: - antifertility and population control - cure of human diseases - manure and nitrification inhibitors - feeds for domestic animals - soap production With its exhaustive treatment of the neem ...
Heinrich Schmutterer, K. R. S. Ascher, 1995
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Mammalian Toxicology of Insecticides
and other Meliaceous Plants, ed. H. Schmutterer, Neem Foundation, Vithalnager, Mumbai (Bombay), 2nd edn, 2002, pp. 1–37. I. P. Ogbuewu, V. U. Odoemenam, H. O. Obikaonu, M. N. Opara, O. O. Emenalom, M. C. Uchegbu, I. C. Okoli, B. O. ...
Timothy C. Marrs, 2012
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Biopesticides for Sustainable Agriculture: prospects and ...
524-537 In The Neem Tree: Azadirachta indica A. Juss. and other meliaceous plants— sources of unique natural products for integrated pest management, medicine, industry and other purposes, 2nd edn, edited by H Schmutterer Mumbai: ...
‎2004
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Studies on the Shootborer
Host preference test for H. grandella larvae, using glass tubes with stems of 4 meliaceous species and a non-host. Fig. 3. Characteristics curves of "systemicity" for carbofuran, arprocarb, Isolan. Materials and methods Feeding preference.
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Neem, a Treatise
WOOD AND TIMBER Nineteen Meliaceous genera are represented in Indian sub continent by one or more species. Neem is important among the fourteen Indian timber trees of this family confined to Meliaceous genera. Meliaceous timbers ...
‎2009
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Neem: Today and in the New Millennium
The Neem Tree Azadirachta indica A. Juss. and other Meliaceous Plants : Sources of Unique Natural Products for Integrated Pest Management, Medicine, Industry and Other Purposes. VCH Weinheim, Germany. Schmutterer, H. (1995b), The ...
Opender Koul, Seema Wahab, 2004
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: An Original Work of Reference ...
megavolt—meliaceous. még-awblt, s. [Pref. megw, and Eng. volt] Elect. : A unit of measurement, consisting of a million volts. még-a-zo-o-spore, 5. Eng. zoosporea] Biol. : A macrozoospore (q.v., Sup). mé—fiir—lg, s. [Mod. Lat., ultimate etym.
Robert Hunter, 1903
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Encyclopedia of Entomology
Production. of. Meliaceous. Trees. The trees are easily propagated both sexually and vegetatively. They can be reproduced using seeds, seedlings, saplings, root suckers or cuttings. Clean seeds, without the pulp, are ...
John L. Capinera, 2008
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Observations on New Vegetable Fossils of the Auriferous Drifts
What relation the foliage and flowers may have had to the above mentioned existing Meliaceous trees is entirely involved in obscurity. How far again an alliance to Sapindaceae or some other orders with woody valvular fruit can be traced out, ...
Ferdinand Baron von Mueller, 1874
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of ...
With the newer pliocene this disappeared, and in its stead plants of the meliaceous order became in the ascendant, and had associated with them a richly tropic flora. This may have been the period which yielded the palm frond discovered ...
‎1885
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