Associations to the word «Melastoma»

Wiktionary

MELASTOMA, noun. (botany) Any of the genus Melastoma of flowering plants.

Dictionary definition

MELASTOMA, noun. Type genus of Melastomataceae; Asiatic shrubs with leathery leaves and large purple flowers followed by edible fleshy black berries.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats