sweet clover
Origin of melilot
Middle English mellilot from Old French melilot from Classical Latin melilotos from Classical Greek melil?tos, kind of clover from meli, honey (see mildew) + l?tos, lotusmelilot
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melilot
noun
See sweet clover.
Origin of melilot
Middle English melilote from Old French from Latin melilōtos from Greek meli honey ; see melit- in Indo-European roots. lōtos lotus ; see lotus .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural melilots)
Origin
From Latin melilÅtos, from Ancient Greek μελίλωτος (melilÅtos), from μÎλι (meli, “honey") + λωτός (lÅtos, “lotus"); later reinforced by Old French mellilote.
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