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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope