mellisonantt (mel i sonant)

[L. mel (mell-), honey, + son an(t-)s, ppr. of sonare, sound: see sonant.] Sweet-sounding. [Rare.] Mop . Belwether of knighthood, you shall bind me to you. Io . I'le have 't no more a sheep-bell; I am knight Of the mell i sonant tingle tangle. Randolph , Amyntas (1640). ( Nares .) Mellisuga (mel-i-su'gä), n. [NL., mell- ), honey, + sugere , suck.) A genus of humming-birds of the family Trochi lidæ , giving name to a subfamily Mell i sug in a . It contains the smallest of its tribe and the very least of all birds, such as M. minima of the West Indies, which is scarcely 2 inches long, the upper parts showing golden-green, the wings and tail dusky-purplish. Also, erroneously, Melisuga . Mellisugæ (mel-i-su'je), n. pl. [NL., pl. of Mellisuga .] In ornith .: ( a ) In Merrem's cla ification (1813), a group of sundry tenuirostral birds, such as humming-birds and species referred to Certhia and Upupa . (b) In Sun devall's system of cla ification, the humming-birds, family Trochi lidæ , considered as a cohort of Anisodactyl i of an order Volucres . Also called Long i lin gues .