/mel"euh meen', mel'euh meen"/ , n. Chem.
1. a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 3 N 3 (NH 2 ) 3 , used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of resins, esp. melamine resins.
2. any of the melamine resins.
[ 1825-35; Melamin, deriv. of Melam distillate of ammonium thiocyanate (arbitrary coinage, but -am repr. AMMONIUM); see -INE 2 ]