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mel•a•xu•ma
Pronunciation: (mel"u-kOO'mu, -u-zOO'-, -uk-sOO'-), [key]—
n. Plant Pathol.
a disease of trees, esp. walnuts, characterized by an inky-black liquid oozing from the affected twigs, branches, and trunk, and by bark cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as
Dothiorella gregaria.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.