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Melia   /mˈɛliə/   Listen
Melia

noun
1.
Type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash.  Synonym: genus Melia.



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"Melia" Quotes from Famous Books



... was to be done." There was a knot of three men and two women standing at a corner, and one of the women was crying on her dirty shawl, and the other comforted her by saying, as she pulled her own shawl over her shoulders, "Jaggers is for him, 'Melia, and what more could you have?" There was a red-eyed little Jew who came into the Close while I was loitering there, in company with a second little Jew whom he sent upon an errand; and while the ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens

... Matthew Henry, and this was the order of their ages—Annet nine, Linnet seven, and Matthew Henry rising five. On fine days they attended school at Inniscaw, being rowed to and fro across the Sound by John Nanjulian (Old Jan), the hind, or Stevy, the farm-boy. These, with Melia Mundy, the house-girl, whose parents lived on Brefar, made up Farmer Tregarthen's employ, and took their meals ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... "I hope you've forgot nothink? Miss 'Melia's gownds—have you got them—as the lady's maid was to have 'ad? I hope they'll fit you. Shut the door, Jim, you'll get no good out of 'ER," continued John, pointing with his thumb towards Miss Sharp: "a bad lot, I tell you, ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Melia" :   azederach, chinaberry tree, Persian lilac, rosid dicot genus, China tree, mahogany family, chinaberry, azedarach, pride-of-India



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