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Melastoma malabathricum
Melastoma malabathricum (senduduk, Singapore rhododendron, Malabar melastome) is a Melastomataceae shrub native from Seychelles and Asia to Australia, a folk-medicinal aluminum-accumulating weed with purple berries that stain the mouth black.
Melastomataceae
Melastomataceae Juss., the melastome family, a pantropical Myrtales family of about 150–190 genera and 4,500–5,800 species, recognized by acrodromous leaf venation, hypanthiate flowers, and buzz-pollinated poricidal anthers.
Melat Kiros
Melat Kiros, Ethiopian-born American democratic socialist and DSA member, Democratic nominee for Colorado's 1st Congressional District in 2026 after upsetting 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette in the June 30 primary; former Sidley Austin lawyer fired over a 2023 open letter on Israel.
Melatonin
Melatonin, also known as N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine, is a hormone produced chiefly by the pineal gland at night that conveys the darkness signal and helps regulate sleep; it was isolated in 1958.
Melayu Kingdom
The Melayu Kingdom was a Sumatran state first recorded in a Chinese source of 644-645, later controlled by Srivijaya and ruled in the 14th century by Adityawarman.
Melba Moore
Melba Moore (born Beatrice Melba Smith, 1945) is an American R&B singer and actress, Tony winner for Purlie (1970), first Black actress to replace a white lead on Broadway in Hair, and 1980s R&B hitmaker with A Little Bit More and Falling.
Melba Phillips
Melba Newell Phillips was an American nuclear physicist who co-discovered the Oppenheimer–Phillips process and, fired in 1952 for refusing to testify, became the first female president of the AAPT.
Melbourne
Melbourne, capital of Victoria, Australia, founded 1835, population 5,435,590 (June 2025). Grew rich in the 1850s gold rush; now a leading education, liveability and events city projected to reach 9.1 million by 2065–66.
Melbourne Airport
Melbourne Airport, also known as Tullamarine Airport, is the primary international airport serving Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It opened in 1970 and operates curfew-free, 24 hours a day.
Melbourne City FC
Melbourne City FC, formerly Melbourne Heart FC (founded 2009), is an Australian professional football club in the A-Leagues, wholly owned by City Football Group since 2014, playing at AAMI Park with multiple men's and women's titles.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG, 'the G'): Melbourne stadium in Yarra Park, established 1853. Largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere (about 100,024); birthplace of Test cricket (1877), one-day internationals (1971), home of Australian football, 1956 Olympics main venue.
Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup, 'the race that stops a nation', Australian Group 1 3200m Thoroughbred handicap at Flemington, first Tuesday of November, first run 1861, $10 million, won 2025 by Half Yours.
Melbourne Football Club
Melbourne Football Club (Demons), founded 1858-59 by Tom Wills and colleagues who wrote the first Australian rules, is an AFL club based at the MCG with 14 VFL/AFL/AFLW premierships, most recently 2021 (men) and 2022 Season 7 (AFLW).
Melbourne gangland killings
Melbourne gangland killings, also called the Melbourne gangland wars or underworld war: tit-for-tat murders among Melbourne crime factions from 1998 to about 2010, driven by the amphetamines trade, ending with Carl Williams' 2010 prison killing and followed by the Lawyer X informant scandal.
Melbourne Island
Melbourne Island, Nunavut: uninhabited island in western Queen Maud Gulf, Canada, at 68.5 N, 104.7 W; largest island in the gulf's west end, hills to 60 m, brant and eider nesting coasts; distinct from islands in British Columbia and French Polynesia.
Melbourne Park
Melbourne Park is a 40-hectare sports and entertainment precinct on Olympic Boulevard in central Melbourne, Australia, home to Rod Laver Arena and the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament.
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (AAMI Park) is a 30,000-seat purpose-built rectangular stadium in Melbourne, opened 2010, home to Melbourne Victory, Melbourne City, and Melbourne Storm, with a geodesic bioframe roof.
Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub
The Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub is a grid-scale battery facility at Plumpton in Melbourne's west with 600 MW and 1.6 GWh of storage, fully operational since December 2025.
Melbourne Storm
Melbourne Storm, NRL rugby league club founded 1998, first professional Victorian club. Four recognized premierships (1999, 2012, 2017, 2020); 2007 and 2009 titles stripped in the 2010 salary cap scandal.
Melbourne tobacco wars
Melbourne tobacco wars: violent turf conflict since March 2023 between organised crime syndicates, notably Kazem Hamad's 'The Commission', over Victoria's illicit tobacco and vape market, marked by 200+ arson attacks, homicides, and escalating police closure and seizure powers.
Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne Town Hall, the City of Melbourne's civic headquarters and concert hall at Swanston and Collins Streets, is a French Second Empire building designed by Joseph Reed and opened in 1870.
Melbourne Victory FC
Melbourne Victory FC, AAMI Park-based Australian professional soccer club and 2005 A-League founding member; 4 Premierships, 7 Championships, 2 FFA Cups, 9 AFC Champions League appearances; investors include 777 Partners, Tony Bloom, and Juan Mata.
Melbourne Water
Melbourne Water is the Victorian government-owned corporation managing Greater Melbourne's water storages, drinking water supply, sewerage, drainage, and flood control, formed from the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works in 1991.
Melbourne Zoological Gardens
Melbourne Zoological Gardens (Melbourne Zoo), Australia's oldest zoo, opened 1862 in Royal Park, Parkville. Founded via the 1857 Zoological Society of Victoria; run by Zoos Victoria; Albert Le Souëf first director; themed trails and Fighting Extinction species.
Melbourne, Florida
Melbourne, Florida: a Space Coast city in southern Brevard County astride the Indian River Lagoon, incorporated 1888 and named for Melbourne, Australia; merged with Eau Gallie in 1969; 2020 population 84,678.
Melchior Broederlam
Melchior Broederlam was a Flemish painter of Ypres who served as court painter to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, documented from 1381 to 1409.
Melchior Cano
Melchior Cano (Melchor Cano, 1509–1560) was a Spanish Dominican theologian and bishop who held the first chair at Salamanca, served Charles V at Trent, and wrote De locis theologicis.
Melchior de Polignac
Melchior de Polignac (1661–1741) was a French cardinal, diplomat, and Neo-Latin poet who served Louis XIV and Louis XV, helped negotiate the Treaties of Utrecht, and wrote the Anti-Lucretius.
Melchior Islands
Melchior Islands: low, ice-covered islands in Dallmann Bay, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula, named by Charcot 1903-05 after Admiral Melchior; site of Argentina's 1947 Base Melchior and the 1942 Primero de Mayo lighthouse.
Melchior Kirchhofer
Melchior Kirchhofer (1775–1853) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and church historian at Stein am Rhein, known for biographies of minor Swiss Reformers including Wilhelm Farel.