Usually means: Increased pigmentation, darker than typical.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. melanic: Merriam-Webster
  2. melanic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. melanic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. melanic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. melanic: Wordnik
  6. melanic: Wiktionary
  7. melanic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. melanic: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. melanic: Dictionary.com
  10. Melanic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. melanic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Melanic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. melanic: FreeDictionary.org
  14. melanic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. melanic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melanic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. melanic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. melanic: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (melanic)

adjective:  Of, relating to, or exhibiting melanism.
adjective:  (soil science) Melanocratic.
adjective:  (archaic, ethnology) black-haired
noun:  A creature, such as a moth, exhibiting melanism.

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