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- English Word Mythopoetic Definition Making or producing myths or mythical tales.
- English Word Mytiloid Definition Like, or pertaining to, the genus Mytilus, or family Mytilidae.
- English Word Mytilotoxine Definition A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.
- English Word Mytilus Definition A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.
- English Word Myxa Definition The distal end of the mandibles of a bird.
- English Word Myxine Definition A genus of marsipobranchs, including the hagfish. See Hag, 4.
- English Word Myxinoid Definition Like, or pertaining to, the genus Myxine.
- English Word Myxinoid Definition A hagfish.
- English Word Myxocystodea Definition A division of Infusoria including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca.
- English Word Myxoma Definition A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.
- English Word Myxomata Definition of Myxoma
- English Word Myxopod Definition A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.
- English Word Myzontes Definition The Marsipobranchiata.
- English Word Myzostomata Definition An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side. N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 243-246.