Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Melanorrhoea

Melanorrhoea , noun

[New Latin, from Greek me`las, me`lanos, black + {not transcribed} to flow.]

(Botany) An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrhoa usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu (in Burma), and yields a valuable black varnish.