| mus | Origin: L, a mouse. <zoology> A genus of small rodents, including the common mouse and rat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Mus musculus | House mouse. (18 Nov 1997) |
| musa | Origin: NL, fr. Ar. Mauz, mauza, banana. <botany> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| musaceous | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the genus Musa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| musang | <zoology> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| musca | Origin: L, a fly. 1. <zoology> A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species. Formerly, a large part of the Diptera were included under the genus Musca. 2. <astronomy> A small constellation situated between the Southern Cross and the Pole. Muscae volitantes . [L, flying flies. <medicine> Specks or filaments apparently seen moving or glinding about in the field of vision. Their appearance is often a symptom of disease of the eye, or of disorder of the nervous system. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| muscadine | 1. <botany> 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. 2. <botany> A fragrant and delicious pear. 3. <zoology> See Muscardin. <botany> Northern muscadine, a European grape of great value. Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber colour. Synonym: golden chasselas. See: Muscadel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| muscae volitantes | Floaters;appearance of moving spots before the eyes, arising from remnants of the embryologic hyaloid vascular system in the vitreous humor. Origin: L. Pl. Of musca, fly; pres. Ppl. Of volito, to fly to and fro (05 Mar 2000) |
| muscales | <botany> An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna. Origin: NL, fr. L. Muscus moss. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| muscallonge | <zoology> See Muskellunge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| muscardin | <zoology> The common European dormouse; so named from its odour. Alternative forms: muscadine. Origin: F, fr. Muscadin a musk-scented lozenge, fr. Muscade nutmeg, fr. L. Muscus musk. See Muscadel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| muscardine | 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. Origin: F. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| muscarin | <physiology> A solid crystalline substance, C5H13NO2, found in the toadstool (Agaricus muscarius), and in putrid fish. It is a typical ptomaine, and a violent poison. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| muscarine | Toxin (alkaloid) from the mushroom Amanita muscaria (Fly Agaric) that binds to (muscarinic) acetylcholine receptors. (18 Nov 1997) |
| muscarinic | 1. Having a muscarine-like action, i.e., producing effects that resemble postganglionic parasympathetic stimulation. 2. An agent that stimulates the postganglionic parasympathetic receptor. See: muscarine, nicotinic. (05 Mar 2000) |