melado

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Spanish, from melar (“to sugar, to candy”).

Noun

melado (countable and uncountable, plural melados or meladoes)

  1. A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for melado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From melar (“to sweeten with honey”).

Adjective

melado m (feminine singular melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable)

  1. honey-sweet (very sweet)
  2. honey-colored (having the color of honey)
  3. sticky
  4. (Brazil, colloquial) drunk
Conjugation

Verb

melado

  1. past participle of melar

Etymology 2

From melar (“to wither, dry up”).

Adjective

melado m (feminine singular melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable)

  1. withered
Conjugation
Synonyms

Verb

melado

  1. past participle of melar

Spanish

Noun

melado m (plural melados)

  1. melado
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