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- English Word Mosasauria Definition An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.
- English Word Mosasaurian Definition One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.
- English Word Mosasaurus Definition A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands.
- English Word Moschatel Definition A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot.
- English Word Moschine Definition Of or pertaining to Moschus, a genus including the musk deer.
- English Word Mosel Definition See Muzzle.
- English Word Moselle Definition A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.
- English Word Moses Definition A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
- English Word Mosk Definition See Mosque.
- English Word Moslem Definition of Moslem
- English Word Moslem Definition A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.]
- English Word Moslem Definition Of or pertaining to the Mohammedans; Mohammedan; as, Moslem lands; the Moslem faith.
- English Word Moslems Definition of Moslem
- English Word Moslings Definition Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.
- English Word Mososaurus Definition Same as Mosasaurus.
- English Word Mosque Definition A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship.
- English Word Mosquito Definition Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic.
- English Word Mosquitoes Definition of Mosquito
- English Word Moss Definition A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
- English Word Moss Definition A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.