资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Melibean \Mel`i*be"an\, Meliban \Mel`i*b?"an\, a. [From L.
   Meliboeus, one of the interlocutors in Virgil's first
   Eclogue.] (Rhet.)
   Alternately responsive, as verses.