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- English Word Murza Definition One of the hereditary nobility among the Tatars, esp. one of the second class.
- English Word Mus Definition A genus of small rodents, including the common mouse and rat.
- English Word Musa Definition A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (M. paradisiaca of Linnaeus, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (M. Ensete), the Philippine Island (M. textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain.
- English Word Musaceous Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the genus Musa.
- English Word Musae Definition of Musa
- English Word Musal Definition Of or pertaining to the Muses, or to Poetry.
- English Word Musang Definition A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat.
- English Word Musar Definition An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe.
- English Word Musard Definition A dreamer; an absent-minded person.
- English Word Musca Definition A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species.
- English Word Musca Definition A small constellation situated between the Southern Cross and the Pole.
- English Word Muscadel Definition See Muscatel, n.
- English Word Muscadine Definition A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine.
- English Word Muscadine Definition A fragrant and delicious pear.
- English Word Muscadine Definition See Muscardin.
- English Word Muscae Definition of Musca
- English Word Muscales Definition An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna.
- English Word Muscallonge Definition See Muskellunge.
- English Word Muscardin Definition The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor.
- English Word Muscardine Definition A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself.
- English Word Muscariform Definition Having the form of a brush.
- English Word Muscarin Definition A solid crystalline substance, C5H13NO2, found in the toadstool (Agaricus muscarius), and in putrid fish. It is a typical ptomaine, and a violent poison.
- English Word Muscat Definition A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.
- English Word Muscatel Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; a muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc.
- English Word Muscatel Definition A common name for several varieties of rich sweet wine, made in Italy, Spain, and France.
- English Word Muscatel Definition Finest raisins, dried on the vine; "sun raisins."
- English Word Muschelkalk Definition A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology.
- English Word Musci Definition An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.
- English Word Muscicapine Definition Of or pertaining to the Muscicapidae, a family of birds that includes the true flycatchers.
- English Word Muscid Definition Any fly of the genus Musca, or family Muscidae.