| mars | 1. The god of war and husbandry. 2. <astronomy> One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light. 3. <chemistry> The metallic element iron, the symbol of which <male/ was the same as that of the planet Mars. Mars brown, a bright, somewhat yellowish, brown. Origin: L. Mars, gen. Martis, archaic Mavors, gen. Mavortis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| grateful med | A microcomputer-based software package providing a user-friendly interface to the medlars system of the national library of medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |