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mediastinum [mediastinum 词源字典]: "A membranous partition between two body cavities or two parts of an organ, especially that between the lungs", Late Middle English: neuter of medieval Latin mediastinus 'medial', based on Latin medius 'middle'.[mediastinum etymology, mediastinum origin, 英语词源]
Mexican wave: "An effect resembling a moving wave produced by successive sections of the crowd in a stadium standing up, raising their arms, lowering them, and sitting down again", 1980s: so named because of the repeated practice of the movement at the 1986 soccer World Cup finals in Mexico City.
missionary position: "A position for sexual intercourse in which a couple lie face to face with the woman underneath the man", Said to be so named because early missionaries advocated the position as ‘proper’ to primitive peoples, to whom the practice was unknown.
Madeira cake: "A close-textured, rich kind of sponge cake", So named because it was eaten as an accompaniment to a glass of Madeira.
mons pubis: "The rounded mass of fatty tissue lying over the joint of the pubic bones, in women typically more prominent and also called the mons Veneris", Late 19th century: Latin, 'mount of the pubes'.
marquess: "A British nobleman ranking above an earl and below a duke", Early 16th century: variant of marquis.
mariculture: "The cultivation of fish or other marine life for food", Early 20th century: from Latin mare, mari- 'sea' + culture, on the pattern of words such as agriculture.
mah-jong: "A Chinese game played, usually by four people, with 136 or 144 rectangular pieces called tiles", From Chinese dialect ma-tsiang, literally 'sparrows'.
magister: "A title or form of address given to scholars, especially those teaching in a medieval university", Late Middle English: from Latin, 'master'.
mealie: "A maize plant", Early 19th century: from Afrikaans mielie, from Portuguese milho 'maize, millet' from Latin milium.
moquette: "A thick pile fabric used for carpets and upholstery", 1930s: from French, perhaps from obsolete Italian mocaiardo 'mohair'.
matt: "(Of a surface or colour) dull and flat; without a shine", Early 17th century (as a verb): from French mat.
manky: "Inferior; worthless", 1950s: probably from obsolete mank 'mutilated, defective', from Old French manque, from Latin mancus 'maimed'. More This word meaning ‘inferior, worthless, off-colour’ is probably from obsolete mank ‘mutilated, defective’, from Old French manque ‘lack’, from Latin mancus ‘maimed’.
mandir: "A Hindu temple", From Hindi and Sanskrit mandira 'dwelling place, temple'.
mu: "The twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet (Μ, μ), transliterated as ‘m’", Greek.
matzo: "A crisp biscuit of unleavened bread, traditionally eaten by Jews during Passover", Yiddish, from Hebrew maṣṣāh.
monoglot: "Using or speaking only one language", Mid 19th century: from Greek monoglōttos, from monos 'single' + glōtta 'tongue'.
marc: "The refuse of grapes or other fruit that have been pressed for winemaking", Early 17th century: from French, from marcher in the early sense 'to trample'.
mompara: "An unsophisticated country person", Fanakalo, literally 'a fool', also 'waste material'.
minging: "Foul-smelling", 1970s: perhaps from Scots dialect ming 'excrement'.