Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Melampyrin

Melampyrin , noun

[New Latin Melampyrum cowwheat; Greek me`las black + pyro`s wheat.]

(Chemistry) The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.

Also: Melampyrite