Mellitic

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes.

2. Pertaining to, or derived from, the mineral mellite. Mellitic acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, organic substance, C6(CO2H)6, occurring naturally in combination with aluminium in the mineral mellite, and produced artificially by the oxidation of coal, graphite, etc., and hence called also graphitic acid.