First Names Rhyming MAGNOLIA
English Words Rhyming MAGNOLIA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MAGNOLÝA AS A WHOLE:
| magnolia | noun (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers. |
| magnoliaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceae) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MAGNOLÝA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (agnolia) - English Words That Ends with agnolia:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (gnolia) - English Words That Ends with gnolia:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (nolia) - English Words That Ends with nolia:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (olia) - English Words That Ends with olia:
| acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
| 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. |
| metabolia | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis. |
| scholia | noun (n. pl.) See Scholium. |
| | (pl. ) of Scholium |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lia) - English Words That Ends with lia:
| abdominalia | noun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
| antlia | noun (n.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera. |
| aurelia | noun (n.) The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora. |
| alalia | noun (n.) Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech. |
| bacchanalia | noun (n. pl.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler. |
| battalia | noun (n.) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. |
| | noun (n.) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. |
| camellia | noun (n.) An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea. |
| | noun (n.) An ornamental greenhouse shrub (Thea japonica) with glossy evergreen leaves and roselike red or white double flowers. |
| cerealia | noun (n. pl.) Public festivals in honor of Ceres. |
| | noun (n. pl.) The cereals. |
| cilia | noun (n. pl.) The eyelashes. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora. |
| coelia | noun (n.) A cavity. |
| crocodilia | noun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds. |
| dahlia | noun (n.) A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color. |
| discodactylia | noun (n. pl.) A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs. |
| dulia | noun (n.) An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God. |
| generalia | noun (n. pl.) Generalities; general terms. |
| glossolalia | noun (n.) Alt. of Glossolaly |
| grindelia | noun (n.) The dried stems and leaves of tarweed (Grindelia), used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis. |
| hematophilia | noun (n.) A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds. |
| hemophilia | noun (n.) See Hematophilia. |
| hydrocorallia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora. |
| hyperdulia | noun (n.) Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia. |
| implacentalia | noun (n. pl.) A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed. |
| lacertilia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards. |
| larvalia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia. |
| lobelia | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers. |
| lupercalia | noun (n. pl.) A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan. |
| 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. |
| marginalia | noun (n. pl.) Marginal notes. |
| 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. |
| memorabilia | noun (n. pl.) Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them. |
| mesocoelia | noun (n.) The cavity of the mesencephalon; the iter. |
| megalocephalia | noun (n.) Alt. of Megalocephaly |
| nebalia | noun (n.) A genus of small marine Crustacea, considered the type of a distinct order (Nebaloidea, or Phyllocarida.) |
| neuroglia | noun (n.) The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord. |
| notabilia | noun (n. pl.) Things worthy of notice. |
| optocoelia | noun (n.) The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals. |
| quinquennalia | noun (n. pl.) Public games celebrated every five years. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Public games celebrated every five years. |
| paraphernalia | noun (n. pl.) Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Appendages; ornaments; finery; equipments. |
| passacaglia | noun (n.) Alt. of Passacaglio |
| penetralia | noun (n. pl.) The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Hidden things or secrets; privacy; sanctuary; as, the sacred penetralia of the home. |
| physalia | noun (n.) A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the Portuguese man-of-war. |
| placentalia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials. |
| procoelia | noun (n.) Same as Procoele. |
| | noun (n. pl.) A division of Crocodilia, including the true crocodiles and alligators, in which the dorsal vertebrae are concave in front. |
| prosocoelia | noun (n.) Same as Prosocoele. |
| pseudocoelia | noun (n.) The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle. |
| regalia | noun (n. pl.) That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd Fellows,etc. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Sumptuous food; delicacies. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed. |
| reptilia | noun (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds. |
| rosalia | noun (n.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence. |
| saturnalia | noun (n. pl.) The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence. |
| scaglia | noun (n.) A reddish variety of limestone. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MAGNOLÝA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (magnoli) - Words That Begins with magnoli:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (magnol) - Words That Begins with magnol:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (magno) - Words That Begins with magno:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (magn) - Words That Begins with magn:
| magnality | noun (n.) A great act or event; a great attainment. |
| magnanimity | noun (n.) The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects. |
| magnanimous | adjective (a.) Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror. |
| | adjective (a.) Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish. |
| 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. |
| magnesian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium. |
| magnesic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as, magnesic oxide. |
| magnesite | noun (n.) Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals. |
| magnesium | noun (n.) A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75. |
| magnet | noun (n.) The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet. |
| | noun (n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet. |
| magnetic | noun (n.) A magnet. |
| | noun (n.) Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian. |
| | adjective (a.) Alt. of Magnetical |
| magnetical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian. |
| | adjective (a.) Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as, the magnetic metals. |
| | adjective (a.) Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment. |
| | adjective (a.) Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism. |
| magneticalness | noun (n.) Quality of being magnetic. |
| magnetician | noun (n.) One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist. |
| magnetics | noun (n.) The science of magnetism. |
| magnetiferous | adjective (a.) Producing or conducting magnetism. |
| magnetism | noun (n.) The property, quality, or state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature which is seen in a magnet. |
| | noun (n.) The science which treats of magnetic phenomena. |
| | noun (n.) Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections. |
| magnetist | noun (n.) One versed in magnetism. |
| magnetite | noun (n.) An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron. |
| magnetizable | adjective (a.) Capable of magnetized. |
| magnetization | noun (n.) The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized. |
| magnetizee | noun (n.) A person subjected to the influence of animal magnetism. |
| magnetizer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, imparts magnetism. |
| magnetograph | noun (n.) An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements. |
| magnetometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination. |
| magnetometric | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements. |
| magnetomotor | noun (n.) A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena. |
| magnetotherapy | noun (n.) The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body. |
| magnifiable | adjective (a.) Such as can be magnified, or extolled. |
| magnific | adjective (a.) Alt. of Magnifical |
| magnifical | adjective (a.) Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent. |
| magnificat | noun (n.) The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate. |
| magnification | noun (n.) The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. |
| magnificence | noun (n.) The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. |
| magnificent | adjective (a.) Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence. |
| | adjective (a.) Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid' pompous. |
| magnifico | noun (n.) A grandee or nobleman of Venice; -- so called in courtesy. |
| | noun (n.) A rector of a German university. |
| magnifier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, magnifies. |
| magnifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Magnify |
| magniloquence | noun (n.) The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence. |
| magniloquent | adjective (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. |
| magniloquous | adjective (a.) Magniloquent. |
| magnitude | noun (n.) Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness. |
| | noun (n.) That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. |
| | noun (n.) Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like. |
| | noun (n.) Greatness; grandeur. |
| | noun (n.) Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude. |
| magnum | noun (n.) A large wine bottle. |
| | noun (n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone. |
| magnetomotive | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a force producing magnetic flux, analogous to electromotive force, and equal to the magnetic flux multiplied by the magnetic reluctance. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (mag) - Words That Begins with mag:
| magbote | noun (n.) Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman. |
| | noun (n.) See Maegbote. |
| magazine | noun (n.) A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship. |
| | noun (n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece. |
| | noun (n.) A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions. |
| | noun (n.) A country or district especially rich in natural products. |
| | noun (n.) A city viewed as a marketing center. |
| | noun (n.) A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus. |
| | noun (n.) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale. |
| | verb (v. t.) To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use. |
| magazining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Magazine |
| | noun (n.) The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine. |
| magaziner | noun (n.) One who edits or writes for a magazine. |
| magazinist | noun (n.) One who edits or writes for a magazine. |
| magdala | adjective (a.) Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc. |
| magdalen | noun (n.) A reformed prostitute. |
| magdaleon | noun (n.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster. |
| magdeburg | noun (n.) A city of Saxony. |
| mage | noun (n.) A magician. |
| magellanic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator. |
| 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. |
| magged | adjective (a.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace. |
| maggiore | adjective (a.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major. |
| maggot | noun (n.) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval. |
| | noun (n.) A whim; an odd fancy. |
| maggotiness | noun (n.) State of being maggoty. |
| maggotish | adjective (a.) Full of whims or fancies; maggoty. |
| maggoty | adjective (a.) Infested with maggots. |
| | adjective (a.) Full of whims; capricious. |
| maghet | noun (n.) A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds. |
| magi | noun (n. pl.) A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East. |
| magian | noun (n.) One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia; an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Magi. |
| magic | adjective (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Alt. of Magical |
| magical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency. |
| | adjective (a.) Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done by, or seemingly done by, enchantment or sorcery. Hence: Seemingly requiring more than human power; imposing or startling in performance; producing effects which seem supernatural or very extraordinary; having extraordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle. |
| magician | noun (n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer. |
| magilp | noun (n.) Alt. of Magilph |
| magilph | noun (n.) See Megilp. |
| magister | noun (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts. |
| magisterial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2. |
| magisteriality | noun (n.) Magisterialness; authoritativeness. |
| magisterialness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being magisterial. |
| magistery | noun (n.) Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy. |
| | noun (n.) A magisterial injunction. |
| | noun (n.) A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth. |
| magistracy | noun (n.) The office or dignity of a magistrate. |
| | noun (n.) The collective body of magistrates. |
| magistral | noun (n.) A sovereign medicine or remedy. |
| | noun (n.) A magistral line. |
| | noun (n.) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic. |
| | adjective (a.) Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup. |
| | adjective (a.) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines. |
| magistrality | noun (n.) Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism. |
| magistrate | noun (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. |
| magistratic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Magistratical |
| magistratical | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate. |
| magistrature | noun (n.) Magistracy. |
| 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. |
| magot | noun (n.) The Barbary ape. |
| magpie | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail. |
| maguari | noun (n.) A South American stork (Euxenara maguari), having a forked tail. |
| maguey | noun (n.) The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave. |
| magyar | noun (n.) One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian. |
| | noun (n.) The language of the Magyars. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MAGNOLÝA:
English Words which starts with 'mag' and ends with 'lia':
English Words which starts with 'ma' and ends with 'ia':
| macroglossia | noun (n.) Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue. |
| 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. |
| madreporaria | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa. |
| mahonia | noun (n.) The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage. |
| maia | noun (n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado). |
| | noun (n.) A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| mastodynia | noun (n.) Alt. of Mastodyny |
| maffia | noun (n.) Alt. of Mafia |
| mafia | noun (n.) A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods. |
