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See Mellone.

Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.

In a mellow manner.

Quality or state of being mellow.

Soft; unctuous. Drayton.

A climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.

Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.

pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea.

ke parts; as, the columnella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.

Shaped like a little column, or columella.

ive of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.

The female of a hawk or falcon.

Producing twins. [R.] Bailey.

One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

Having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; -- said of an organic acid.

See Cyamellone.

Between lammellæ or laminæ; as, interlamellar spaces.

To intermeddle; to intermix. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

A jumelle opera glass, or the like.

a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.