Mĕl'am-pōde, n.

noun

n. [Gr. μελαμπόδιον, properly black-foot, from μέλας, black, and πόδιον, diminutive of πούς, ποδός, foot; according to some, from Melampus, who is said to have first used it.] The black hellebore. [Obs.] Spenser.