MYRA
First name MYRA's origin is English. MYRA means "poetic invention". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MYRA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of myra.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with MYRA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming MYRA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MYRA AS A WHOLE:
elmyra myrah omyrahNAMES RHYMING WITH MYRA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (yra) - Names That Ends with yra:
cyra kyra lyra mayra tyra thyraRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ra) - Names That Ends with ra:
asura aurora azmera chinara efra iyangura japera katura nadra sanura tandra zuhura estra moira soumra adra aludra alzubra badra bahira bushra johara nasira noura samira thara' yusra gadara adora chamorra senora thora dendera kakra mukamutara mukantagara sagira shukura subira zahra azura ceara abdera aethra aldara ara astra calandra cassandra cleopatra clytemnestra cynara cythera deianira dora electra fedora hemera hera hilaeira hydra hypermnestra isadora isaura kleopatra lysandra madora marmara metanira musidora pandora phaedra pheodora sapphira theodora theora thera vara adira afra zemira candra chaitra chandara chandra kawindra nidra odra pandara sakra saura sitara zudora taraNAMES RHYMING WITH MYRA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (myr) - Names That Begins with myr:
myr myriam myrla myrna myron myrtleRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (my) - Names That Begins with my:
mya myah mychaela mychal mychele mychelle myesha myeshia mykaela mykal myla myleen myleene myles mylnburne mylnric mylo myma mynogan mystee mysti mystique mytraNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MYRA:
First Names which starts with 'm' and ends with 'a':
mabbina mabina maca macala macayla macha machara machayla machupa mackayla mackenna macmurra mada madalena madalina maddalena madeeha madeleina madelena madelina madena madia madina madra maelisa maertisa magda magdala magdalena magena magnhilda magnilda magnolia maha mahala mahalia mahila mahina maia maiana maida maira mairia mairona maitea maitena maitilda maiya majeeda majella majida maka makala makarioa makda makeda makela makemba makena makenna makya malaika malana maleka malia maliha malika malila malina malinda malita malmuira malva malvina mana manaba manara manauia manda mandisa manisha maniya mankalita manoela mantotohpa manuela manya maola mapiya mara maranda marcela marcella marcellia marcia marcsa marea mareesa marelda marellaEnglish Words Rhyming MYRA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MYRA AS A WHOLE:
palmyra | noun (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MYRA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (yra) - English Words That Ends with yra:
ephyra | noun (n.) A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila. |
exogyra | noun (n.) A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters. |
eyra | noun (n.) A wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but with a more slender body and shorter legs. |
lyra | noun (n.) A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega. |
noun (n.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain. |
tayra | noun (n.) A South American carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and thick. The length, including the tail, is about three feet. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MYRA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (myr) - Words That Begins with myr:
myrcia | noun (n.) A large genus of tropical American trees and shrubs, nearly related to the true myrtles (Myrtus), from which they differ in having very few seeds in each berry. |
myriacanthous | adjective (a.) Having numerous spines, as certain fishes. |
myriad | noun (n.) The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things. |
noun (n.) An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number. | |
adjective (a.) Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars. |
myriagram | noun (n.) Alt. of Myriagramme |
myriagramme | noun (n.) A metric weight, consisting of ten thousand grams or ten kilograms. It is equal to 22.046 lbs. avoirdupois. |
myrialiter | noun (n.) Alt. of Myrialitre |
myrialitre | noun (n.) A metric measure of capacity, containing ten thousand liters. It is equal to 2641.7 wine gallons. |
myriameter | noun (n.) Alt. of Myriametre |
myriametre | noun (n.) A metric measure of length, containing ten thousand meters. It is equal to 6.2137 miles. |
myriapod | noun (n.) One of the Myriapoda. |
myriapoda | noun (n. pl.) A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped. |
myriarch | noun (n.) A captain or commander of ten thousand men. |
myriare | noun (n.) A measure of surface in the metric system containing ten thousand ares, or one million square meters. It is equal to about 247.1 acres. |
myrica | noun (n.) A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called. |
myricin | noun (n.) A silky, crystalline, waxy substance, forming the less soluble part of beeswax, and regarded as a palmitate of a higher alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also myricyl alcohol. |
myricyl | noun (n.) A hypothetical radical regarded as the essential residue of myricin; -- called also melissyl. |
myriological | adjective (a.) Of or relating to a myriologue. |
myriologist | noun (n.) One who composes or sings a myriologue. |
myriologue | noun (n.) An extemporaneous funeral song, composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend. |
myriophyllous | adjective (a.) Having an indefinitely great or countless number of leaves. |
myriopoda | noun (n. pl.) See Myriapoda. |
myriorama | noun (n.) A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes. |
myrioscope | noun (n.) A form of kaleidoscope. |
myristate | noun (n.) A salt of myristic acid. |
myristic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance. |
myristin | noun (n.) The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc. |
myristone | noun (n.) The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance. |
myrmicine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Myrmica, a genus of ants including the small house ant (M. molesta), and many others. |
myrmidon | noun (n.) One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war. |
noun (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc. |
myrmidonian | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or like, myrmidons. |
myrmotherine | adjective (a.) Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds. |
myrobalan | noun (n.) Alt. of Myrobolan |
myrobolan | noun (n.) A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America. |
myronic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, mustard; -- used specifically to designate a glucoside called myronic acid, found in mustard seed. |
myropolist | noun (n.) One who sells unguents or perfumery. |
myrosin | noun (n.) A ferment, resembling diastase, found in mustard seeds. |
myroxylon | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America, the different species of which yield balsamic products, among which are balsam of Peru, and balsam of Tolu. The species were formerly referred to Myrospermum. |
myrrh | noun (n.) A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose. |
myrrhic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, myrrh. |
myrrhine | adjective (a.) Murrhine. |
myrtaceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large and important natural order of trees and shrubs (Myrtaceae), of which the myrtle is the type. It includes the genera Eucalyptus, Pimenta, Lechythis, and about seventy more. |
myrtiform | adjective (a.) Resembling myrtle or myrtle berries; having the form of a myrtle leaf. |
myrtle | noun (n.) A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning. |
myrmecophyte | noun (n.) A plant that affords shelter and food to certain species of ants which live in symbiotic relations with it. Special adaptations for this purpose exist; thus, Acacia spadicigera has large hollows thorns, and species of Cecropia have stem cavities. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MYRA:
English Words which starts with 'm' and ends with 'a':
maa | noun (n.) The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull. |
maasha | noun (n.) An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee. |
maclurea | noun (n.) A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks. |
macroglossia | noun (n.) Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue. |
macroura | adjective (a.) Alt. of Macroural |
macrura | noun (n. pl.) A subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar forms. Cf. Decapoda. |
mactra | noun (n.) Any marine bivalve shell of the genus Mactra, and allied genera. Many species are known. Some of them are used as food, as Mactra stultorum, of Europe. See Surf clam, under Surf. |
macula | noun (n.) A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb. |
noun (n.) A rather large spot or blotch of color. |
madeira | noun (n.) A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira. |
madia | noun (n.) A genus of composite plants, of which one species (Madia sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the table. |
madonna | noun (n.) My lady; -- a term of address in Italian formerly used as the equivalent of Madame, but for which Signora is now substituted. Sometimes introduced into English. |
noun (n.) A picture of the Virgin Mary (usually with the babe). |
madoqua | noun (n.) A small Abyssinian antelope (Neotragus Saltiana), about the size of a hare. |
madrepora | noun (n.) A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched. |
madreporaria | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa. |
madrina | noun (n.) An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules. |
madroöa | noun (n.) A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of California, having a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madroöa apples. |
magdala | adjective (a.) Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc. |
magenta | noun (n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc. |
magma | noun (n.) Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste. |
noun (n.) A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol. | |
noun (n.) A salve or confection of thick consistency. | |
noun (n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | |
noun (n.) The glassy base of an eruptive rock. | |
noun (n.) The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry. |
magnesia | noun (n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium. |
magnolia | noun (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers. |
maha | noun (n.) A kind of baboon; the wanderoo. |
mahabarata | noun (n.) Alt. of Mahabharatam |
mahonia | noun (n.) The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage. |
mahratta | noun (n.) One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. |
noun (n.) A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas. |
maia | noun (n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado). |
noun (n.) A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia). |
majolica | noun (n.) A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century. |
mala | noun (n.) Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law. |
(pl. ) of Malum |
malacca | noun (n.) A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula. |
malacobdella | noun (n.) A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha. |
malacopoda | noun (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora. |
malacostraca | noun (n. pl.) A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca. |
malacozoa | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria. |
malaga | noun (n.) A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines. |
malaria | noun (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma. |
noun (n.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals. |
mallophaga | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird. |
malma | noun (n.) A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet. |
malpighia | noun (n.) A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries. |
maltha | noun (n.) A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor. |
noun (n.) Mortar. |
mama | noun (n.) See Mamma. |
mamma | noun (n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity. |
noun (n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag. |
mammalia | noun (n. pl.) The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother. |
mammilla | noun (n.) The nipple. |
manca | noun (n.) See Mancus. |
mandioca | noun (n.) See Manioc. |
mandragora | noun (n.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1. |
mania | noun (n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. |
noun (n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. |
manila | adjective (a.) Alt. of Manilla |
manilla | noun (n.) A ring worn upon the arm or leg as an ornament, especially among the tribes of Africa. |
noun (n.) A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city. | |
adjective (a.) Same as Manila. |
manna | noun (n.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food. |
noun (n.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food. | |
noun (n.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe. |
manta | noun (n.) See Coleoptera and Sea devil. |
mantilla | noun (n.) A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like. |
noun (n.) A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc. |
mantissa | noun (n.) The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic. |
mantra | noun (n.) A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm. |
mantua | noun (n.) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. |
noun (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown. |
manzanita | noun (n.) A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear. |
mara | noun (n.) The principal or ruling evil spirit. |
noun (n.) A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions. | |
noun (n.) The Patagonian cavy (Dolichotis Patagonicus). |
maranatha | noun (n.) "Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema. |
maranta | noun (n.) A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea) arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament. |
marena | noun (n.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus. |
marginalia | noun (n. pl.) Marginal notes. |
marginella | noun (n.) A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas. |
margosa | noun (n.) A large tree of genus Melia (M. Azadirachta) found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic. |
marikina | noun (n.) A small marmoset (Midas rosalia); the silky tamarin. |
marimba | noun (n.) A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck. |
marimonda | noun (n.) A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Central and South America. |
marinorama | noun (n.) A representation of a sea view. |
marsala | noun (n.) A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily. |
marsdenia | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Milkweed family, mostly woody climbers with fragrant flowers, several species of which furnish valuable fiber, and one species (Marsdenia tinctoria) affords indigo. |
marshalsea | noun (n.) The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. |
marsipobranchia | noun (n. pl.) A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii. |
marsupialia | noun (n. pl.) A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata. |
martineta | noun (n.) A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest. |
masora | noun (n.) A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries. |
massasauga | noun (n.) The black rattlesnake (Crotalus, / Caudisona, tergemina), found in the Mississippi Valley. |
massora | noun (n.) Same as Masora. |
mastigopoda | noun (n. pl.) The Infusoria. |
mastodynia | noun (n.) Alt. of Mastodyny |
matamata | noun (n.) The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers. |
matanza | noun (n.) A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow. |
mattowacca | noun (n.) An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring. |
maxilla | noun (n.) The bone of either the upper or the under jaw. |
noun (n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible. | |
noun (n.) One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods. |
maya | noun (n.) The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion. |
mazama | noun (n.) Alt. of Mazame |
mazourka | noun (n.) Alt. of Mazurka |
mazurka | noun (n.) A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat. |
meandrina | noun (n.) A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals. |
media | noun (n.) pl. of Medium. |
noun (n.) One of the sonant mutes /, /, / (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, /, /, / (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) /, /, / (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute. | |
(pl. ) of Medium |
medialuna | noun (n.) See Half-moon. |
medulla | noun (n.) Marrow; pith; hence, essence. |
noun (n.) The marrow of bones; the deep or inner portion of an organ or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata. | |
noun (n.) A soft tissue, occupying the center of the stem or branch of a plant; pith. |
medusa | noun (n.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone. |
noun (n.) Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish. |
megalomania | noun (n.) A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions. |
melada | noun (n.) Alt. of Melado |
melaena | noun (n.) A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood. |
melanaemia | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles. |
melancholia | noun (n.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas. |
melanorrhoea | noun (n.) An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrh/a usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu, and yelds a valuable black varnish. |
melasma | noun (n.) A dark discoloration of the skin, usually local; as, Addison's melasma, or Addison's disease. |
melastoma | noun (n.) A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth. |
melena | noun (n.) See Melaena. |