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  • English Word Myotomic Definition Of or pertaining to a myotome or myotomes.
  • English Word Myotomy Definition The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles.
  • English Word Myrcia Definition A large genus of tropical American trees and shrubs, nearly related to the true myrtles (Myrtus), from which they differ in having very few seeds in each berry.
  • English Word Myria- Definition A prefix, esp. in the metric system, indicating ten thousand, ten thousand times; as, myriameter.
  • English Word Myriacanthous Definition Having numerous spines, as certain fishes.
  • English Word Myriad Definition The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.
  • English Word Myriad Definition An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.
  • English Word Myriad Definition Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars.
  • English Word Myriagram Definition Alt. of Myriagramme
  • English Word Myriagramme Definition A metric weight, consisting of ten thousand grams or ten kilograms. It is equal to 22.046 lbs. avoirdupois.
  • English Word Myrialiter Definition Alt. of Myrialitre
  • English Word Myrialitre Definition A metric measure of capacity, containing ten thousand liters. It is equal to 2641.7 wine gallons.
  • English Word Myriameter Definition Alt. of Myriametre
  • English Word Myriametre Definition A metric measure of length, containing ten thousand meters. It is equal to 6.2137 miles.
  • English Word Myriapod Definition One of the Myriapoda.
  • English Word Myriapoda Definition A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped.
  • English Word Myriarch Definition A captain or commander of ten thousand men.
  • English Word Myriare Definition A measure of surface in the metric system containing ten thousand ares, or one million square meters. It is equal to about 247.1 acres.
  • English Word Myrica Definition A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.
  • English Word Myricin Definition A silky, crystalline, waxy substance, forming the less soluble part of beeswax, and regarded as a palmitate of a higher alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also myricyl alcohol.
  • English Word Myricyl Definition A hypothetical radical regarded as the essential residue of myricin; -- called also melissyl.
  • English Word Myriological Definition Of or relating to a myriologue.
  • English Word Myriologist Definition One who composes or sings a myriologue.
  • English Word Myriologue Definition An extemporaneous funeral song, composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend.
  • English Word Myriophyllous Definition Having an indefinitely great or countless number of leaves.
  • English Word Myriopoda Definition See Myriapoda.
  • English Word Myriorama Definition A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.
  • English Word Myrioscope Definition A form of kaleidoscope.
  • English Word Myristate Definition A salt of myristic acid.
  • English Word Myristic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance.