Dictionary - Definition of MELAMPODE


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. The black hellebore.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

Date "Melampode" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Etymology:Melampode \Mel"am*pode\, noun. [from Greek expression melampo`dion; of uncertain origin.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: MELAMPODE

Domain	Definition
Noah Webster	[Noun] The black hellebore.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Literature	1: "My seely sheep, like well below, 2: And liken their abode." 3: For they been hale enough I trow, 4: Melampode (3 syl.). Black hellebore, so called from Melampus, a famous soothsayer and physician, who cured with it the daughters of Praetus of their melancholy. (Virgil Georgics, iii. 550.) 5: Spenser, Eclogue vii. 6: They need not melampode;. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. The black hellebore.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

Date "MELAMPODE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Etymology:Melampode \Mel"am*pode\, noun. [from Greek expression melampo`dion; of uncertain origin.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Noah Webster	[Noun] The black hellebore.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Literature	1: "My seely sheep, like well below, 2: And liken their abode." 3: For they been hale enough I trow, 4: Melampode (3 syl.). Black hellebore, so called from Melampus, a famous soothsayer and physician, who cured with it the daughters of Praetus of their melancholy. (Virgil Georgics, iii. 550.) 5: Spenser, Eclogue vii. 6: They need not melampode;. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.		Top