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Macassar Oil
- - A kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair; -- so called because originally obtained from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil. Cf. antimacassar.
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)
Mahabharatam
- noun - (Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families
Mahabharatum
- noun - (Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families
Makarios III
- noun - Greek Orthodox bishop and archbishop of Cyprus and the first president of independent Cyprus (1913-1977)
Malabar Kino
- noun - reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc
Malacca Cane
- noun - a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm
Malacobdella
- - A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.
Malacologies
- noun - the branch of zoology that studies the structure and behavior of mollusks
Malacologist
- noun - a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks