[mel-ik] 
| 1. | intended to be sung. |
| 2. | noting or pertaining to the more elaborate form of Greek lyric poetry, as distinguished from iambic and elegiac poetry. |
| mel·ic (měl'ĭk) adj. Of or relating to verse that is intended to be sung, especially Greek lyric verse of the seventh to fifth century B.C. [Greek melikos, from melos, song.] |
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