English words starting with m - page 412

Meanings of Muscadel:

noun

A muscat grape, especially as grown for drying to make raisins.

Usage examples:

It is a blend of riesling, pinot blanc, pinot gris, muscatel and gewürztraminer.

Meanings of Muscadelle:

noun

A variety of white grape grown mainly for sweet white wines in bordeaux and australia.

Usage examples:

Sémillon, sauvignon blanc, muscadelle, carignan, pinot noir, and merlot are particularly susceptibl…

Meanings of Muscadels:

noun

A muscat grape, especially as grown for drying to make raisins.

Usage examples:

It is a blend of riesling, pinot blanc, pinot gris, muscatel and gewürztraminer.

Meanings of Muscadet:

noun

A dry white wine from the part of the loire region in france nearest the west coast.

Usage examples:

I noted with delight that an entire subsection is devoted to whites of the loire (when is the last …

Meanings of Muscadin:

noun

Especially in paris in the 18th and 19th centuries: a dandy, a fop. hence depreciatively: a member of a moderate party (composed chiefly of young men of the upper middle class) in the early years of the french revolution (1794–6).

Meanings of Muscadine:

noun

Any of a group of species and varieties of wine grape native to mexico and the south-eastern us, typically having thick skins and a musky flavour.

Usage examples:

Sweet muscadine grapes, blackberries, apples, jujubes and a host of other fruits will be available …

Meanings of Muscae:

proper noun

A small southern constellation (the fly), lying in the milky way between the southern cross and the south celestial pole.

adjective

Used with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation musca.

Usage examples:

The star beta muscae

Meanings of Muscardine:

noun

Any of various fungal diseases affecting silkworms and other insects (more fully "muscardine disease"). also: any of the fungi, especially of the genera beauveria and metarhizium, causing these diseases (more fully "muscardine fungus").

Meanings of Muscari:

noun

A plant of the genus muscari, especially m. botryoides; a grape hyacinth; (in form muscari) the genus itself.

Meanings of Muscariform:

adjective

Resembling a brush in having an elongated structure with hairs or bristles at one end.

Meanings of Muscarine:

noun

A poisonous compound present in certain fungi, including the fly agaric.

Usage examples:

Two main classes of ach receptors have been identified on the basis of their responsiveness to the …

Meanings of Muscarinic:

adjective

Relating to a type of acetylcholine receptor in the nervous system which is capable of responding to muscarine.

Usage examples:

The central nervous system also contains muscarinic receptors.

Meanings of Muscaris:

noun

A plant of the genus muscari, especially m. botryoides; a grape hyacinth; (in form muscari) the genus itself.

Meanings of Muscat:

noun

A variety of white, red, or black grape with a musky scent, grown in warm climates for wine or raisins or as table grapes.

Usage examples:

This is actually a blend of five grape varieties - sylvaner, muscat, riesling, gewürztraminer and p…

proper noun

The capital of oman, a port in the north-eastern part of the country on the south-eastern coast of the arabian peninsula; population 620,000 (est. 2007).

Meanings of Muscatel:

noun

A muscat grape, especially as grown for drying to make raisins.

Usage examples:

It is a blend of riesling, pinot blanc, pinot gris, muscatel and gewürztraminer.

Meanings of Muscatels:

noun

A muscat grape, especially as grown for drying to make raisins.

Usage examples:

It is a blend of riesling, pinot blanc, pinot gris, muscatel and gewürztraminer.

Meanings of Muscats:

noun

A variety of white, red, or black grape with a musky scent, grown in warm climates for wine or raisins or as table grapes.

Usage examples:

This is actually a blend of five grape varieties - sylvaner, muscat, riesling, gewürztraminer and p…

proper noun

The capital of oman, a port in the north-eastern part of the country on the south-eastern coast of the arabian peninsula; population 620,000 (est. 2007).

Meanings of Muschelkalk:

noun

A limestone or chalk deposit from the middle triassic in europe, especially in germany.

Usage examples:

The triassic record is represented by the germanic facies: buntsandstein, muschelkalk and kouper.

Meanings of Musci:

plural noun

A class of lower plants that comprises the mosses.

Usage examples:

Common pioneer mat species at altitude in itatiaia are fernseea itatiaiae, pleurostima gounelleana …

Meanings of Muscicapine:

adjective

Of, belonging to, or designating the subfamily muscicapinae (family muscicapidae) or genus muscicapa of old world flycatchers.

Meanings of Muscicole:

adjective

= muscicolous . also as noun: a muscicolous organism.

Meanings of Muscicolous:

adjective

That lives among or in association with mosses.

Meanings of Muscid:

noun

An insect of the housefly family ( muscidae ).

Meanings of Muscids:

noun

An insect of the housefly family ( muscidae ).

Meanings of Musciform:

adjective

Resembling a fly; specifically resembling the housefly in form.