English words starting with mar

Meanings of Marabou:

noun

A large african stork with a massive bill and large neck pouch, which feeds mainly by scavenging.

Usage examples:

The fish eagle and marabou stork are very common predators

Meanings of Marabous:

noun

A large african stork with a massive bill and large neck pouch, which feeds mainly by scavenging.

Usage examples:

The fish eagle and marabou stork are very common predators

Meanings of Marabout:

noun

A muslim holy man or hermit, especially in north africa.

Usage examples:

At the mosque, the marabout and the father give the baby an arabic name from the koran.

Meanings of Maraboutism:

noun

The veneration of marabouts as powerful semi-divine beings.

Meanings of Marabouts:

noun

A muslim holy man or hermit, especially in north africa.

Usage examples:

At the mosque, the marabout and the father give the baby an arabic name from the koran.

Meanings of Marabunta:

noun

A social wasp.

Meanings of Maraca:

noun

A percussion instrument in the form of a hollow gourd or gourd-shaped container filled with dried beans or similar objects and played, usually in pairs, by being shaken.

Usage examples:

One morning the youngest children shook maracas, banged small cymbals, and danced and skipped to in…

Meanings of Maracaibo:

proper noun

A city and port in north-western venezuela, situated on the channel linking the gulf of venezuela with lake maracaibo; population 1,891,800 (est. 2009).

Meanings of Maracas:

noun

A percussion instrument in the form of a hollow gourd or gourd-shaped container filled with dried beans or similar objects and played, usually in pairs, by being shaken.

Usage examples:

One morning the youngest children shook maracas, banged small cymbals, and danced and skipped to in…

Meanings of Maracock:

noun

The fruit of any of certain american passion flowers, especially the may-pop, passiflora incarnata, of the southern united states, and the grenadilla, p. quadrangularis, of tropical america.

Meanings of Marae:

noun

The courtyard of a maori meeting house, especially as a social or ceremonial forum.

Meanings of Marage:

verb

To strengthen (a steel alloy) by maraging.

Meanings of Maraged:

adjective

Of steel: strengthened by maraging. of a quality: produced or reinforced by maraging.

Meanings of Maraging:

verb

To strengthen (a steel alloy) by maraging.

Meanings of Maral:

noun

A red deer of the rare subspecies cervus elaphus maral, found in asia minor and the caucasus.

Meanings of Maranao:

noun

A member of a moro people inhabiting the province of lanao del sur and parts of central cotabato province on the island of mindanao in the philippines, and some areas of northern borneo.

adjective

Of or relating to the maranao or their language.

Meanings of Maranatha:

exclamation

The lord comes!’, ‘the lord is come!’, ‘come, o lord!’.

Meanings of Maranhao:

proper noun

A state of north-eastern brazil, on the atlantic coast; capital, são luís.

Meanings of Maranon:

proper noun

A river of northern peru, which rises in the andes and forms one of the principal headwaters of the river amazon.

Meanings of Maranta:

noun

A tropical american plant of a genus which includes the prayer plant and the arrowroot.

Usage examples:

Officially known as marantas, prayer plants are so called because the leaves of some species fold u…

Meanings of Marantaceous:

adjective

Belonging or relating to the family marantaceae of monocotyledonous plants, of which maranta is the typical genus.

Meanings of Marantas:

noun

A tropical american plant of a genus which includes the prayer plant and the arrowroot.

Usage examples:

Officially known as marantas, prayer plants are so called because the leaves of some species fold u…

Meanings of Marantic:

adjective

Relating to, associated with, or suffering from marasmus.

Meanings of Marara:

noun

Either of two eastern australian timber trees of the family cunoniaceae, pseudoweinmannia lachnocarpa (more fully "rose marara") and caldcluvia paniculosa (also called ackama paniculata); the wood of these trees.

Meanings of Maras:

noun

A burrowing rodent of the cavy family, having long hindlimbs and greyish fur, native to south america.

Usage examples:

There are wallabies, meerkats, flamingoes, maras and tamarin monkeys in both zoos.