English dictionary: words starting with m - page 437

Meanings of Mythopoetize:

verb

To transform into a myth; to make mythical.

Meanings of Mythopoetized:

verb

To transform into a myth; to make mythical.

Meanings of Mythopoetizing:

verb

To transform into a myth; to make mythical.

Meanings of Mythopoetry:

noun

Mythic poetry; poetry concerned with myths.

Meanings of Mythos:

noun

A myth or mythology.

Usage examples:

The arthurian mythos

Meanings of Myths:

noun

A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.

Usage examples:

Ancient celtic myths

Meanings of Mythus:

noun

A myth or mythos.

Usage examples:

The progress of any people is marked by its mythi.

Meanings of Mytilacea:

noun

A bivalve of the group mytilacea (now a superfamily), which comprises marine mussels.

adjective

Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the group mytilacea of marine mussels.

Meanings of Mytilacean:

noun

A bivalve of the group mytilacea (now a superfamily), which comprises marine mussels.

adjective

Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the group mytilacea of marine mussels.

Meanings of Mytiloid:

adjective

Originally: resembling a mussel, especially in shape. later: specifically of or belonging to the order mytiloida of marine bivalves, which includes marine mussels.

noun

A mussel; (now) especially one of the marine order mytiloida.

Meanings of Mytilotoxine:

noun

A poisonous alkaloid produced by certain planktonic organisms and sometimes present in mussels.

Meanings of Mytilus:

noun

A genus of bivalve molluscs originally of wide extent but now comprising a group of related species in the marine family mytilidae, including the common edible mussel (mytilus edulis).

Meanings of Myxamoeba:

noun

In slime moulds: a motile feeding cell lacking flagella but capable of amoeboid movement.

Meanings of Myxedema:

noun

Swelling of the skin and underlying tissues giving a waxy consistency, typical of patients with underactive thyroid glands.

Usage examples:

Patients with myxedema present with rough skin of the palms, soles, elbows and knees, and yellow-or…

Meanings of Myxedematous:

adjective

Of the nature of, relating to, or characteristic of myxoedema; suffering from or affected by myxoedema.

Meanings of Myxedemic:

adjective

= myxoedematous .

Meanings of Myxine:

noun

A hagfish; specifically the atlantic hagfish, myxine glutinosa (family myxinidae); (in form myxine) the genus which includes this species.

Meanings of Myxinoid:

noun

An agnathan (jawless) vertebrate of the group consisting of the extant hagfishes; a hagfish.

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the hagfishes.

Meanings of Myxo:

Relating to mucus.

Usage examples:

Myxodoema

Meanings of Myxococcus:

noun

A genus of myxobacteria having slender, tapering vegetative cells and spherical or oval encapsulated resting cells (microcysts) that are not enclosed in a sporangium; (also myxococcus) a myxobacterium of this genus.

Meanings of Myxoedema:

noun

Swelling of the skin and underlying tissues giving a waxy consistency, typical of patients with underactive thyroid glands.

Usage examples:

Patients with myxedema present with rough skin of the palms, soles, elbows and knees, and yellow-or…

Meanings of Myxoedemic:

adjective

= myxoedematous .

Meanings of Myxofibroma:

noun

A fibroma with mucoid stroma.

Meanings of Myxoflagellate:

noun

In slime moulds: a motile cell having a flagellum; a swarm-cell.

Meanings of Myxogastrales:

noun

A taxon comprising all or most of the plasmodial slime moulds. now more usually called myxomycetes.