I.a piece of salted tunny-fish: “ceterā parte plenis pulpamentis sale asservantur melandrya vocantur, caesis quercus assulis simillima,” i. e. like the black heart of oak, Plin. 9, 15, 18, § 48; Mart. 3, 77, 7; Varr. L. L. 5, 12, § 77 Müll.
mĕlandryum , i, n., = μελάνδρυον,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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