Usually means: Mythical seer with animal communication.
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noun:  In Greek mythology, (MelampousThe name, if it is significant, signifies "black foot".) a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos.
noun:  a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.

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