μελανίζω

A. to be black or blackish, Hices. ap. Ath. 7.320d, Dsc. 1.105, Gp. 9.17.1:— Pass., Heliod. ap. Orib. 50.7.2.
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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