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myrmecoid [myrmecoid 词源字典]: "Resembling an ant in form or behaviour; ( Zoology ) myrmecomorphic", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. From myrmeco- + -oid.[myrmecoid etymology, myrmecoid origin, 英语词源]
monandry: "A pattern of mating in which a female has only one mate at a time", Mid 19th century: from mono- 'single', on the pattern of words such as polyandry.
mala fide: "In bad faith; with intent to deceive", Latin, ablative of mala fides.
macrocyte: "An abnormally large red blood cell, found particularly in some forms of anaemia", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences. From macro- + -cyte. Compare French macrocyte.
mam: "One’s mother", Late 16th century: perhaps imitative of a child's first syllables (see mama).
mid-morning: "The middle of the morning", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in William Morris (1834–1896), designer, author, and visionary socialist. From mid + morning.
macroclimate: "The general climate of a relatively large area", 1930s. From macro- + climate. Compare earlier microclimate.
methylamine: "Each of the three compounds that can be formed by replacing one or more of the hydrogen atoms in ammonia with a methyl group or groups; especially CH3NH2 (monomethylamine), a colourless, flammable gas with a fishy or ammonia-like odour", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. From French méthylamine from methyl + amine.
mand: "An utterance aimed at producing an effect or result", 1950s. From -mand (in command, demand, etc.); coined by B. F. Skinner.
mump (1): "A block of peat; a spade's depth in digging turf", Late 18th cent. Origin uncertain: perhaps alteration of lump, or perhaps specifically use of singular form corresponding to mumps.
mump (2): "To assume a demure, melancholy, or sanctimonious expression; to be silent and sullen; to sulk, mope. Also with object with it", Late 16th cent.; earliest use found in Timothy Kendall (fl. 1572–1577), translator and poet. Apparently from an imitative base of Germanic origin. Compare Dutch mompen to mumble (rare, poetic), German †mumpfen to chew with a full mouth, Icelandic mumpa to cackle, to mutter, murmur, mumpra to eat greedily, to mumble, to distort the mouth, Norwegian regional mompe, mumpe to chew with a full mouth, stuff oneself.
mump (3): "To beg, go about begging; to sponge upon", Mid 17th cent. Apparently from Dutch mompen to cheat, deceive, conceal, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to mompen to mumble, though the nature of the relationship is unclear.
moxa: "A downy substance obtained from the dried leaves of an Asian plant related to mugwort. It is burnt on or near the skin in Eastern medicine as a counterirritant", Late 17th century: from Japanese mogusa, from moe kusa 'burning herb'.
mike (1): "A microphone", 1920s: abbreviation; compare with mic.
mike (2): "Idle away one’s time", Early 19th century: of unknown origin.
metropolitanize: "(Usually in pass.). To make metropolitan in character; to give (a person) the manners, outlook, etc., of a city dweller; to urbanize (a place)", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Philadelphia Press. From metropolitan + -ize.
mixoploid: "Containing cells which are of differing ploidy or (more generally) have differing numbers of chromosomes", 1930s. From mixo- + -ploid. Compare mixoploidy.
mixoploidy: "The property or state of being mixoploid", 1930s. From mixoploid + -y.
Mentha: "A genus of the family Lamiaceae (Labiatae), consisting of various strongly aromatic plants, especially herbs, with spikes or whorls of small lilac flowers having four equal stamens and a four-lobed corolla; (also mentha) a plant of this genus, a mint", Mid 18th cent.; earliest use found in Philip Miller (1691–1771), horticulturist and writer. From classical Latin mentha mint (adopted as a genus name by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum II. 576, after J. Pitton de Tournefort Inst. Rei Herbariae I. 188).
musketoon: "A kind of musket with a short barrel and a large bore", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Herbert. From musket + -oon, after French mousqueton, Italian moschettone.