I.a sheepskin (with the wool on): “circumierunt in melotis, in pellibus caprinis,” Vulg. Heb. 11, 37; Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4, 76. —Collat. form, mēlōtes , Isid. 19, 24, 19; and mēlōtis , idis, f., Ambros. Ep. 15, 9.
mēlōta , ae, or mēlōtē , ōs, f., = μηλωτή,