Malosma
1: one species; often included in the genus Rhus [syn: {genus Malosma}]
Malosma laurina
1: small aromatic evergreen shrub of California having paniculate leaves and whitish berries; in some classifications included in genus Rhus [syn: {laurel sumac}, {Rhus laurina}]
Malpighi
1: Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694) [syn: {Marcello Malpighi}]
Malpighia
1: type genus of the Malpighiaceae [syn: {genus Malpighia}]
Malpighia glabra
1: tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries [syn: {barbados cherry}, {acerola}, {Surinam cherry}, {West Indian cherry}]
Malpighia obovata
1: cuban timber tree with hard wood very resistant to moisture [syn: {jiqui}]
Malpighiaceae
1: tropical shrubs or trees [syn: {family Malpighiaceae}]
malpighian body
1: the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron [syn: {malpighian corpuscle}, {renal corpuscle}]
malpighian corpuscle
1: the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron [syn: {malpighian body}, {renal corpuscle}]
malpighian layer
1: the innermost layer of the epidermis [syn: {stratum germinativum}, {stratum basale}, {rete Malpighii}]
malposed
1: characterized by malposition; "crooked malposed teeth"
malpractice
1: professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage; "the widow sued his surgeon for malpractice" 2: a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charge...
malpractice insurance
1: insurance purchased by physicians and hospitals to cover the cost of being sued for malpractice; "obstetricians have to pay high rates for malpractice insurance"
Malraux
1: French novelist (1901-1976) [syn: {Andre Malraux}]
MALS
1: a master's degree in library science [syn: {Master of Arts in Library Science}]
malt
1: a milkshake made with malt powder [syn: {malted}, {malted milk}] 2: a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer [syn: {malt liquor}] 3: a cere...
malt liquor
1: a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer [syn: {malt}]
malt sugar
1: a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches [syn: {maltose}]
malt whiskey
1: whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still [syn: {Scotch}, {Scotch whiskey}, {Scotch whisky}, {malt whisky}]
malt whisky
1: whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still [syn: {Scotch}, {Scotch whiskey}, {Scotch whisky}, {malt whiskey}]
Malta
1: a republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964 [syn: {Republic of Malta}] 2: a strategically located island south of Sicily in the Med...
Malta fever
1: infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache [syn: {brucellosis}, {undulant fever...
malted
1: a milkshake made with malt powder [syn: {malt}, {malted milk}]
malted milk
1: a milkshake made with malt powder [syn: {malted}, {malt}] 2: powder made of dried milk and malted cereals
Maltese
1: of or relating to the island or republic of Malta or its inhabitants; "Maltese customs officers" n : breed of toy dogs having a long straight silky white coat [syn: {Maltese dog}]
maltese cross
1: Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads [syn: {scarlet lychnis}, {Lychins chalcedonica}] 2: a cross with triangular or arrow-shaped arms and the points toward the c...
Maltese dog
1: breed of toy dogs having a long straight silky white coat [syn: {Maltese}]
Maltese lira
1: the basic unit of money on Malta; equal to 100 cents [syn: {lira}]
maltha
1: a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt [syn: {mineral tar}]
Malthus
1: an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834) [syn: {Thomas Malthus}, {Thomas Robert Malthus}]
Malthusian
1: of or relating to Thomas Malthus or to Malthusianism; "Malthusian theories" n : a believer in Malthusian theory
Malthusian theory
1: Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence [syn: {Malthusianism}]
Malthusianism
1: Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence [syn: {Malthusian theory}]
maltman
1: a maker of malt [syn: {maltster}]
Malto
1: a member of the Dravidian people living in northern Bengal in eastern India 2: the Dravidian language spoken by the Malto people
maltose
1: a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches [syn: {malt sugar}]
maltreat
1: treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead" [syn: {mistreat}, {abuse}, {ill-use}, {step}, {ill-treat}]
maltreated
1: physically abused; "an abused wife" [syn: {abused}, {ill-treated}, {mistreated}] [ant: {unabused}]
maltreatment
1: cruel or inhumane treatment [syn: {ill-treatment}, {ill-usage}, {abuse}]
maltster
1: a maker of malt [syn: {maltman}]
Malus
1: apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphere [syn: {genus Malus}]
Malus angustifolia
1: small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms [syn: {Southern crab apple}, {flowering crab}]
Malus baccata
1: Asian wild crab apple cultivated in many varieties for it small acid usually red fruit used for preserving [syn: {Siberian crab}, {Siberian crab apple}, {cherry apple}, {cherry crab}]
Malus coronaria
1: medium-sized tree of the eastern United States having pink blossoms and small yellow fruit [syn: {American crab apple}, {garland crab}]
Malus fusca
1: small tree or shrub of western United States having white blossoms and tiny yellow or red fruit [syn: {Oregon crab apple}]
Malus ioensis
1: wild crab apple of western United States with fragrant pink flowers [syn: {Iowa crab}, {Iowa crab apple}, {prairie crab}, {western crab apple}]
Malus pumila
1: native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits [syn: {apple}, {orchard apple tree}]
Malus sylvestris
1: wild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples [syn: {wild crab}]
Malva
1: herbs and subshrubs: mallows [syn: {genus Malva}]
Malva moschata
1: erect Old World perennial with faintly musk-scented foliage and white or pink flowers; adventive in United States [syn: {musk mallow}, {mus rose}]
Malva neglecta
1: annual Old World plant with clusters of pink or white flowers; naturalized in United States [syn: {common mallow}]
Malva sylvestris
1: erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States [syn: {tall mallow}, {high mallow}, {cheese}, {cheeseflower}]
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Malvaceae
1: herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra [syn: {family Malvaceae}, {mallow family}]
Malvales
1: Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae [syn: {order Malvales}]
Malvastrum
1: genus of mallows characterized by red and yellow flowers often placed in other genera [syn: {genus Malvastrum}]
Malvastrum coccineum
1: false mallow of western United States having racemose red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Malvastrum [syn: {prairie mallow}, {red false mallow}, {Sphaeralcea coccinea}]
Malvaviscus
1: small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallows [syn: {genus Malvaviscus}]
malversate
1: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family" [syn: {embezzle}, {defalcate}, ...
Mam
1: a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala 2: a Mayan language spoken by the Mam people
mama
1: informal terms for a mother [syn: {ma}, {mamma}, {mom}, {momma}, {mommy}, {mammy}, {mum}, {mummy}, {mater}] 2: a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped
mama's boy
1: a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests [syn: {mother's boy}, {mamma's boy}]
mamba
1: arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal
Mamet
1: United States playwright (born in 1947) [syn: {David Mamet}]
mamey
1: tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind [syn: {mammee apple}, {mammee}, {mammee tree}, {Mammea americana}] 2: globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rin...
mamilla
1: the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: {nipple}, {mammilla}, {pap}, {teat}, {tit}] [also: {mamillae} (pl)]
mamillary body
1: one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix [syn: {mammillary body}, {corpus mamillare}]
mamma
1: informal terms for a mother [syn: {ma}, {mama}, {mom}, {momma}, {mommy}, {mammy}, {mum}, {mummy}, {mater}] 2: milk-secreting organ of female mammals [syn: {mammary gland}] [also: {mammae} (pl)]
mamma's boy
1: a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests [syn: {mother's boy}, {mama's boy}]
mammal
1: any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
Mammalia
1: warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female [syn: {class Mammalia}]
mammalian
1: of or relating to the class Mammalia
mammalogy
1: the branch of zoology that studies mammals
mammary
1: of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female
mammary gland
1: milk-secreting organ of female mammals [syn: {mamma}]
Mammea
1: American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit [syn: {genus Mammea}]
Mammea americana
1: tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind [syn: {mammee apple}, {mammee}, {mamey}, {mammee tree}]
mammee
1: tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum [syn: {marmalade tree}, {sapote}, {Pouteria zapota}, {Calo...
mammee apple
1: tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind [syn: {mammee}, {mamey}, {mammee tree}, {Mammea americana}] 2: globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and j...
mammee tree
1: tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind [syn: {mammee apple}, {mammee}, {mamey}, {Mammea americana}]
mammilla
1: the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: {nipple}, {mamilla}, {pap}, {teat}, {tit}] [also: {mammillae} (pl)]
Mammillaria plumosa
1: a low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico [syn: {feather ball}]
mammillary body
1: one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix [syn: {mamillary body}, {corpus mamillare}]
mammogram
1: X-ray film of the soft tissue of the breast
mammography
1: a diagnostic procedure to detect breast tumors by the use of X rays
mammon
1: wealth regarded as an evil influence 2: (New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit; "ye cannot serve God and Mammon"
mammoth
1: so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth multinational corporation" [syn: {gigantic}] n : an...
mammothermography
1: the use of thermography to detect breast tumors (which appear as hot spots)
Mammut
1: extinct type genus of the Mammutidae: mastodons [syn: {genus Mammut}, {genus Mastodon}]
Mammut americanum
1: North American mastodon; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon [syn: {American mastodon}, {American mastodont}]
Mammuthus
1: extinct genus: mammoths [syn: {genus Mammuthus}]
Mammuthus primigenius
1: very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere [syn: {woolly mammoth}, {northern mammoth}]
Mammutidae
1: extinct family: mastodons [syn: {family Mammutidae}, {family Mastodontidae}]
mammy
1: an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S. 2: informal terms for a mother [syn: {ma}, {mama}, {mamma}, {mom}, {momma}, {mommy}, {mum}, {mummy}, {mater}]
mamo
1: black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail; now extinct
mamoncillo
1: tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp [syn: {Spanish lime}, {Spanish lime tree}, {honey berry}, {genip}, {ginep}, {Melicocca ...
man
1: an adult male person (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: {adult male}] [ant: {woman}] 2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military forc...
man and wife
1: two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love" [syn: {marriage}, {married couple}]
man Friday
1: the most helpful assistant [syn: {right-hand man}, {chief assistant}]
man hour
1: a time unit used in industry for measuring work [syn: {person hour}]
man in the street
1: a hypothetical average man [syn: {John Doe}, {Joe Blow}, {Joe Bloggs}]
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