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Maleos
- noun - Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches
Mallon
- noun - United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938)
Mallow
- noun - any of various plants of the family Malvaceae
Mambos
- noun - a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba
- Voodoo priestess
Mammon
- noun - (New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit; "ye cannot serve God and Mammon"
- wealth regarded as an evil influence
Manioc
- noun - a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
- cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
- cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
Manson
- noun - Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922)
Marcor
- - A wasting away of flesh; decay.
Markov
- noun - Russian mathematician (1856-1922)
Marmot
- noun - stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter