different between honeydew vs melligo

English

Etymology

honey +? dew

Pronunciation

Noun

honeydew (countable and uncountable, plural honeydews)

1. A sweet sticky substance deposited on leaves by insects.
2. A sweet sticky substance produced by the leaves of some plants.
3. (countable) A melon with sweet green flesh, with a smooth greenish-white exterior, of cultivar group Cucumis melo Inodorus group.
4. A light bluish-green colour, like that of a honeydew melon.

5. A fine sort of tobacco moistened with molasses.

Synonyms

• (fruit): honeydew melon

Translations

Adjective

honeydew (comparative more honeydew, superlative most honeydew)

1. Of a light bluish green colour, like that of a honeydew melon.

Related terms

• mildew

See also

• Appendix:Colors

References

• “honeydew”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin melligo

Noun

melligo (uncountable)

1. (archaic) honeydew (sweet sticky substance found on plants)

Latin

Etymology

From mel (“honey”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mel?li?.?o?/, [m?l??l?i??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mel?li.?o/, [m?l?li???]

Noun

mell?g? f (genitive mell?ginis); third declension

1. A honeylike juice, sucked by bees from plants; propolis, bee-glue, hive dross.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

References

• melligo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• melligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette