"melic" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin melicus, from Koine Greek μελικός (melikós), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “song, lyric”).",
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      "form": "more melic",
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      "form": "most melic",
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          "text": "I dined at their house, and in the evening, Miss Hart gave a demonstration of her musical and melic [translating melischen] talents.",
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        "Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse."
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          "lyric",
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  "etymology_text": "From translingual Melica (genus name), probably from Italian melica, meliga (“sorghum, millet”).",
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          "kind": "lifeform",
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          "name": "Grasses",
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        "Any of various grasses, of the genus Melica, from northern temperate regions."
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          "Melica",
          "Melica#Translingual"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "grass",
          "word": "helmikkä"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "grass",
          "word": "mélique"
        }
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      "sense": "grass",
      "word": "helmikkä"
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      "word": "mélique"
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