melissyl (melisil)

[ Melisuga, Melisugæ, etc. See Mellisuga, etc. Melitæa (mel-i-te'ä), n. [NL., mon and characteristic species of North America; its larvæ feed on Chelone, and hibernate gregariously in a web. The British species, like those of Argynnis, are known to English collectors as fritillaries. 2. A genus of alcyonarians or sea-fans of the family Is i did a, or giving name to a family Me litœida. The polypary is branched as in the gorgonians or true sea-fans, and composed of alternating hard and soft or calcareous and coriaceous joints, the latter much larger than the former, which form bead-like nodes along the stem. M. ochracea is a yellowish coral from the Indian and Pacific oceans. Also Melitœa, Melithœa, Mel i the a, Melitea.