amélanche

== French == === Etymology === From Southeastern Occitan amelanca, rebracketing with the article from melanco, containing an Ancient Ligurian suffix attached to a word for black cognate to Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black”) and Latvian melns (“black”), calling the fruits by their colour. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.me.lɑ̃ʃ/ === Noun === amélanche f (plural amélanches) fruit of any tree that is described under amélanchier (serviceberry). === References === Genaust, Helmut (1996), “Amélanchier”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 56a === Further reading === “amélanche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012