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melonic en · ADJ

Etymology

From melon + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to a type of complex heterocyclic triazine related to melem.
    • In recent years, a disorder in the peroxide oxidation of lipids, accompanied by an absence of melonic dialdehyde and a decrease in the content of diene conjugates, has been found. 1984, Soviet Neurology & Psychiatry - Volume 17, page 76:
    • Melam, melem, cyameluric acid, and melonic acid form a class of solid and infusible compounds known for their extreme heat stability. 1962, Charles D. Thibault, Materials research abstracts:
    • As an example, a patient with methyl melonic acid urea, for whom the enzyme and the liver that converts methyl melonic acid to succinic acid is not operating, may be well treated by raising the serum level of vitamin B12 1,000-fold. 1974, Leon R. Pomeroy, New dynamics of preventive medicine - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 265:
  2. (not-comparable) Melon-like.
    • She peels back her bra exposing ripe melonic breasts and demands her hall mirror to take notice. 2010, Allen L. Scarbrough, The Sparrow Sings of Worlds Unknown, →ISBN, page 31:
    • Symptomatic of what Melville would call my hypos: when the girl with melonic breasts doing back-arching yoga on the beach in front of her tent asked how old I was in reply to my inviting her to my birthday party tonight, I shaved a year off ... 2002, Alan C. Weisbecker, In Search of Captain Zero, →ISBN:
    • He liked long hair, big bums and melonic tits. 1999, Elaine Palmer, Girlboy, page 73:
  3. (not-comparable) Squamosal.
    • 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. 1999, A New Amphibious Tetrapod from the Greenlandic Eotriassic, →ISBN, page 19:
  4. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of melanic.
    alt of melanic
    • Prichard, our best authority on this subject, apportions the greater part of the habitable globe to the melonic or dark-haired races. 1858, The Living Age- Volume 59, page 355:
    • After death, irregular melonic spots developed on the intersegmental regions of the body. 2001, South Indian Horticulture - Volumes 49-50, page 282:
  5. (not-comparable) Pertaining to a leading order graph.
    • 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. 2015, Vincent Lahoche, “Constructive Tensorial Group Field Theory II: The U(1)-T^(4_4) Model”, in arXiv: