| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| maltha |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mal·tha |
| PRONUNCIATION: | m l th |
| NOUN: | A black, viscous natural bitumen. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English malthe, from Latin maltha, from Greek, a mixture of wax and pitch. See mel-1 in Appendix I.
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