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語源

From Latin melilōtos, from Ancient Greek μελίλωτος (melílōtos), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + λωτός (lōtós, “lotus”); later reinforced by Old French mellilote.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmɛlɪlɒt/

名詞

melilot (countable and uncountable, plural melilots)

1. A fragrant plant of the genus Melilotus, often having small yellow or white flowers.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 187:

     Melilot boiled in wine and applied mollifies all hard tumours and inflammations that happen in the eyes or other parts of the body, as the fundament or privy parts of man or woman.

同意語

• sweet clover (US)

派生語