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Menai Strait
- noun - a strait in northern Wales between Anglesey Island and the mainland
Mendaciously
- adverb - in a mendacious and untruthful manner; "I told him, quite untruthfully, that I had just returned from leave"
Mendel's Law
- noun - (genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research
- A principle governing the inheritance of many characters in animals and plants, discovered by Gregor J. Mendel (Austrian Augustinian abbot, 1822-84) in breeding experiments with peas. He showed that the height, color, and other characters depend on the presence of determinating factors behaving as units. In any given germ cell each of these is either present or absent.
Mendelianism
- noun - the theory of inheritance based on Mendel's laws
Mendicancies
- noun - a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
- the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"
Menhaden Oil
- noun - a fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather
Meningoceles
- noun - a congenital anomaly of the central nervous system in which a sac protruding from the brain or the spinal meninges contains cerebrospinal fluid (but no nerve tissue)
Meniscectomy
- noun - surgical removal of the meniscus of the knee
Menispermine
- - An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta Cocculus, formerly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; -- called also menispermina.
Menobranchus
- - A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus, having permanent external gills.