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mucid [mucid 词源字典]: "Mouldy, musty, or festering", Mid 17th century: from Latin mucidus, from mucere 'be mouldy'.[mucid etymology, mucid origin, 英语词源]
mandibulary: "= mandibular", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Urquhart (1611–1660), author and translator. From post-classical Latin mandibula + -ary.
mammillation: "A rounded protuberance", Mid 19th cent. From mamilla + -ation, after mammillated.
mordent: "A rapid alternation of a note with the note immediately below or above it in the scale (sometimes further distinguished as lower mordent and upper mordent). The term inverted mordent usually refers to the upper mordent", Early 19th century: via German from Italian mordente, present participle of mordere 'to bite'.
mure: "Imprison or shut up in an enclosed space", Late Middle English: from Old French murer, from Latin murare, from murus 'wall'.
microphyte: "Any microscopic or very small organism considered (or at one time considered) to belong to the plant kingdom; especially a microscopic alga", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in David Page (1814–1879), geologist and author. From micro- + -phyte. Compare French microphyte.
monopolism: "An economic system based on or incorporating monopolies; adoption of or support for such a system", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Promethean. From monopoly + -ism, after monopolist.
metopic: " Physical Anthropol. , Anatomy , and Medicine . Designating the suture between the two halves of the frontal bone of the skull (also called frontal suture); of or relating to this suture. Also (of a skull): exhibiting metopism", Late 19th cent. From French métopique from ancient Greek μέτωπον forehead + French -ique.
muciform: "Resembling mucus; mucoid", Early 19th cent. From muci- + -form, probably after scientific Latin muciformis.
mammilliform: "Shaped like or resembling a mamilla; nipple-shaped", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. From mamilla + -iform, perhaps after post-classical Latin mamilliformis.
mastoidal: "Of, relating to, or connected with the mastoid process or bone", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in Robert Knox (1791–1862), anatomist and ethnologist. From mastoid + -al.
moneywise: "In terms of money, as far as money is concerned", Early 19th cent..
macrodont: "Chiefly Physical Anthropol. Having large teeth", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Huxley (1825–1895), biologist and science educationist. From macro- + -odont.
murid (1): "A rodent of a very large family (Muridae) which includes most kinds of rats, mice, and voles", Early 20th century: from modern Latin Muridae (plural), based on Latin mus, mur- 'mouse'.
murid (2): "A follower of a Muslim saint, especially a Sufi disciple", From Arabic murīd, literally 'he who desires'.
multivocal: "Having or open to many different meanings, interpretations, or applications", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet, critic, and philosopher. From post-classical Latin multivocus expressed by many words + -al, after vocal.
mokume gane: "A decorative alloy or laminate made of mixed metals and used in the mokume technique", 1970s; earliest use found in The Washington Post. From Japanese mokume-gane from mokume + -gane, combining form of kane metal.
medalet: "A small medal, usually one smaller than an inch or 25 mm in diameter; specifically a small medal-like devotional object worn by Roman Catholics", Late 18th cent.; earliest use found in John Pinkerton (1758–1826), historian and poet. From medal + -et, probably after Italian medaglietta small medal, small devotional medal.
marcel: "A deep artificial wave in the hair", Late 19th century: named after Marcel Grateau (1852–1936), the Parisian hairdresser who invented it. More permanent from Late Middle English:Permanent is from Latin permanent- ‘remaining to the end’ from per- ‘through’ and manere ‘remain’. The abbreviation perm in hairdressing dates from the 1920s, a shortening of ‘permanent wave’, a process that had been introduced only a few years earlier. Before that people had to curl their hair with hot tongs, or use the late 19th century marcel wave, named after François Marcel Grateau (1852–1936), the French hairdresser who invented the method.
multiplicate (1): "Originally: †multiplied, increased ( obsolete ). In later use: of many parts, elements, or sections; manifold; multiple, repeated", Late 15th cent.; earliest use found in Higden's Polychronicon. From classical Latin multiplicātus, past participle of multiplicāre. Compare duplicate noun, triplicate noun.