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Lysogenicity
- noun - the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material; "when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny"
Lysogenizing
- verb - become integrated into the genome of (a bacterium)
Madame Curie
- noun - French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
Mahometanism
- - See Mohammedanism and Islam.
Mahometanize
- - To convert to Islam, the religion of Mohammed; to Mohammedanize.
Mahumetanism
- - See Mohammedan, Muslim, Mohammedanism.
Mainpernable
- - Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.
Maintenances
- noun - activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care"
- court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
- means of maintenance of a family or group
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment"
- the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community; "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"