Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 88
Myomorpha (n. pl.) (Zool.) 鼠形亞目 An extensive group of rodents which includes the rats, mice, jerboas, and many allied forms.
Compare: Rodent
Rodent (n.) (Zool.) 齧齒目動物 [C] One of the Rodentia.
Rodent (a.) 齧齒目動物的；咬的，嚼的 Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
Rodent (a.) (Zool.) (a) Gnawing.
Rodent (a.) (Zool.) (b) Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.
Rodent (n.) Relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing [syn: rodent, gnawer].
Compare: Gnaw
Gnaw (v. i.) 啃，嚙 [（+at/ into/ on）]；消耗；侵蝕 [（+at/ into）] To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teeth something hard, unwieldy, or unmanageable.
I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Gnaw (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Gnawed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gnawing.] 咬，啃，嚙；咬斷；咬成[（+off/ away）]；消耗；腐蝕；侵蝕 [（+away）] To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.
His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw. -- Dryden.
Gnaw (v. t.) To bite in agony or rage.
They
gnawed their tongues for pain. -- Rev. xvi. 10.
Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
Gnaw (v. t.) To trouble in a constant manner; to plague; to worry; to vex; -- usually used with at; as, his mounting debts gnawed at him.
Gnaw (v.) Bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker"
Gnaw (v.) Become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded" [syn: erode, gnaw, gnaw at, eat at, wear away].
Compare: Rodentia
Rodentia (n. pl.) (Zool.) 齧齒目 An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.
Note: The incisor teeth are long, curved, and strongly enameled on the outside, so as to keep a cutting edge.
They have a persistent pulp and grow continuously.
Rodentia (n.) Small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis [syn: Rodentia, order Rodentia].
Compare: Jerboa
Jerboa (n.) (Zool.) 跳鼠 Any small jumping rodent of the genus Dipus, esp. Dipus Aegyptius, which is common in Egypt and the adjacent countries. The jerboas have very long hind legs and a long tail. [Written also gerboa.]
Note: The name is also applied to other small jumping rodents, as the Pedetes Caffer, of the Cape of Good Hope.
Jerboa kangaroo (Zool.), Small Australian kangaroo ({Bettongia penicillata), about the size of a common hare.
Jerboa (n.) Mouselike jumping rodent.
Compare: Kangaroo
Kangaroo (n.) [Said to be the native name.] (Zool.) 【動】袋鼠 [C] Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodid[ae]. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo ({Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the genus Halmaturus, inhabit wooded districts. See Wallaby.
Kangaroo apple (Bot.), The edible fruit of the Tasmanian plant Solanum aviculare.
Kangaroo grass (Bot.), A perennial Australian forage grass ({Anthistiria australis).
Kangaroo hare (Zool.), The jerboa kangaroo. See under Jerboa.
Kangaroo mouse. (Zool.) See Jumping mouse, under Jumping.
Kangaroo (n.) Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail.
Compare: Herbivorous
Herbivorous (a.) (Zool.) 食草的 Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.
Compare: Herbivora
Herbivora (n. pl.) (Zool.) ‘動物’食草類 An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.
Herbivorain (n.) (British English) Grass-eating animals collectively.
Compare: Collectively
Collectively (adv.) 全體地；共同地 In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
Collectively (adv.) In conjunction with; combined; "our salaries put together couldn't pay for the damage"; "we couldn't pay for the damages with all our salaries put together" [syn: jointly, collectively, conjointly, together with].
Compare: Mammalia
Mammalia () (Zool.) 哺乳類 The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.
Note: Mammalia are divided into three subclasses;
I. Placentalia. This subclass embraces all the higher orders, including man. In these the fetus is attached to the uterus by a placenta.
II. Marsupialia. In these no placenta is formed, and the young, which are born at an early state of development, are carried for a time attached to the teats, and usually protected by a marsupial pouch. The opossum, kangaroo, wombat, and koala are examples.
III. Monotremata. In this group, which includes the genera Echidna and Ornithorhynchus, the female lays large eggs resembling those of a bird or lizard, and the young, which are hatched like those of birds, are nourished by a watery secretion from the imperfectly developed mammae.
Mammalia (n.) Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female [syn: Mammalia, class Mammalia].
Mammalia, (n. pl.) A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
Compare: Mammalian
Mammalian (a.) 哺乳動物的 Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
Mammalian (a.) Of or relating to the class Mammalia.
Mammalian (n.) 哺乳動物 Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk [syn: mammal, mammalian].
Herbivorous (a.) Feeding only on plants [ant: carnivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous].
Myomorpha (n.) True rats and mice and related rodents [syn: Myomorpha, suborder Myomorpha].
Myopathia (n.) (Med.) Any affection of the muscles or muscular system.
Myopathic (a.) (Med.) Of or pertaining to myopathia.
Myopathic (a.) Of or relating to any disease of the muscles that is not caused by nerve dysfunction.
Compare: Dysfunction
Dysfunction (n.) (Medicine) 功能（官能）不良；功能（官能）障礙 Any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group; "erectile dysfunction"; "sexual relationship dysfunction" [syn: dysfunction, disfunction].
Compare: Erectile
Erectile (a.) 可使直立的；【醫】勃起的 Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated; as, erectile tissue.
Compare: Susceptible
Susceptible (a.) 易被感動的，易動感情的；多情的；易受……影響的 [F] [（+to）] Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious dawn of our eternal day. -- Young.
Susceptible (a.) Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts. -- Cowper.
I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. -- Lamb. -- Sus*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. -- Sus*cep"ti*bly, adv.
Susceptible (a.) (Often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof" [ant: insusceptible, unsusceptible].
Susceptible (a.) Easily impressed emotionally.
Erectile (a.) Of or pertaining to an erection [5]; as, erectile dysfunction.
Erectile tissue (Anat.), A tissue, such as that contained in the penis, which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by accumulation of blood in and the consequent distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains.
Erectile (a.) Capable of being raised to an upright position; "erectile feathers."
Erectile (a.) Filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood; "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ" [syn: erectile, cavernous].
Myopathy (n.) Same as Myopathia.
Compare: Myopathia
Myopathia (n.) (Med.) [醫] 肌病 Any affection of the muscles or muscular system.
Myopathy (n.) Any pathology of the muscles that is not attributable to nerve dysfunction.
Myope (n.) 近視的人 A person having myopia; a myops.
Myope (n.) A person with myopia; a nearsighted person.
Myophan (n.) (Zool.) A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria.
Compare: Infusoria
Infusoria (n.)【動】纖毛蟲類 (Zool.) One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size. Formerly, the term was applied to any microbe found in infusions of decaying organic material, but the term is now applied more specifically to one of the classes of the phylum Ciliophora, of ciliated protozoans.
Note: (From 1913 dictionary): They are found in all seas, lakes, ponds, and streams, as well as in infusions of organic matter exposed to the air. They are distinguished by having vibrating lashes or cilia, with which they obtain their food and swim about. They are devided into the orders Flagellata, Ciliata, and Tentaculifera. See these words in the Vocabulary. Formely the term Infusoria was applied to all microscopic organisms found in water, including many minute plants, belonging to the diatoms, as well as minute animals belonging to various classes, as the Rotifera, which are worms; and the Rhizopoda, which constitute a distinct class of Protozoa. Fossil Infusoria are mostly the siliceous shells of diatoms; sometimes they are siliceous skeletons of Radiolaria, or the calcareous shells of Foraminifera.
Compare: Molluscoidea
Molluscoidea, () 擬軟體動物（Molluscoidea）動物界的一門。包括苔蘚蟲綱、腕足綱和帚蟲綱三綱；也有將三綱各列為一門的 Including Brachiopoda and Bryozoa. Mollusca, including Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda, Lamellibranchiata or Acephala. Echinodermata, including Holothurioidea, Echinoidea, Asterioidea, Ophiuroidea, and Crinoidea. C[oe]lenterata, including Anthozoa or Polyps, Ctenophora, and Hydrozoa or Acalephs. Spongiozoa or Porifera, including the sponges. Protozoa, including Infusoria and Rhizopoda. For definitions, see these names in the Vocabulary. Animalcular
Infusoria (n.) In some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter [syn: Infusoria, subclass Infusoria].
Myopia (n.) (Med.) 【醫】近視；目光短淺 Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.
Compare: Nearsightedness
Nearsightedness (n.) (Med.) 近視；近視眼；無先見之明；目光短淺 An eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability, such that one can see only close objects distinctly; the condition of being nearsighted. See Myopic, and Myopia.
Syn: myopia, shortsightedness.
Nearsightedness (n.) (Ophthalmology) Eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred [syn: myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightedness] [ant: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness].
Compare: Abnormality
Abnormality (n.) (pl. Abnormalities.) 反常，異常；變態；畸形；反常的事物 The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. -- Darwin.
Abnormality (n.) Something abnormal.
Abnormality (n.) An abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies [syn: abnormality, abnormalcy] [ant: normalcy, normality].
Abnormality (n.) Retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence [syn: abnormality, mental defectiveness].
Abnormality (n.) Marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal [syn: abnormality, freakishness].
Abnormality (n.) Behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality [syn: abnormality, irregularity].
Ametropia (n.) (Med.) A visual impairment resulting from faulty refraction of light rays in the eye. Subtypes include myopia astigmatism and hyperopia. -- Am`e*trop"ic, a. AS
Myopia (n.) (Ophthalmology) Eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred [syn: myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightedness] [ant: farsightedness,
hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness].
Myopic (a.) Pertaining to, or affected with, or characterized by, myopia; nearsighted.
Myips (n.) See Myope.
Myopsis (n.) The appearance of muscae volitantes. See Muscae volitantes, under Musca.
Myopy (n.) Myopia.
Myosin (n.) An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma.
Myosis (n.) Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.
Myositic (a.) Myotic.
Myositis (n.) Inflammation of the muscles.
Myosotis (n.) A genus of plants. See Mouse-ear.
Myotic (a.) Producing myosis, or contraction of the pupil of the eye, as opium, calabar bean, etc.
Myotic (n.) A myotic agent.
Myotome (n.) A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma.
Myotome (n.) One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebrae; also, one of the protovertebrae themselves.
Myotome (n.) The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.
Myotomic (a.) Of or pertaining to a myotome or myotomes.
Myotomy (n.) The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles.
Myrcia (n.) A large genus of tropical American trees and shrubs, nearly related to the true myrtles (Myrtus), from which they differ in having very few seeds in each berry.
Myria- () A prefix, esp. in the metric system, indicating ten thousand, ten thousand times; as, myriameter.
Myriacanthous (a.) Having numerous spines, as certain fishes.
Myriad (n.) The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.
Myriad (n.) An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.
Myriad (a.) Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars.
Myriagram (n.) Alt. of Myriagramme.
Myriagramme (n.) A metric weight, consisting of ten thousand grams or ten kilograms. It is equal to 22.046 lbs. avoirdupois.
Myrialiter (n.) Alt. of Myrialitre.
Myrialitre (n.) A metric measure of capacity, containing ten thousand liters. It is equal to 2641.7 wine gallons.
Myriameter (n.) Alt. of Myriametre.
Myriametre (n.) A metric measure of length, containing ten thousand meters. It is equal to 6.2137 miles.
Myriapod (n.) One of the Myriapoda.
Myriapoda (n. pl.) A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped.
Myriapoda (n.) 多足亞門（或稱多足類、多足綱） Is a subphylum of arthropods containing millipedes, centipedes, and others. The group contains over 16,000 species, most of which are terrestrial. [2] Although their name suggests they have myriad (10,000) legs, myriapods range from having up to 750 legs (the millipede Illacme plenipes) [3] to having fewer than ten legs.
The fossil record of myriapods reaches back into the late Silurian, although molecular evidence suggests a diversification in the Cambrian Period, [4] and Cambrian fossils exist which resemble myriapods. [2] The oldest unequivocal myriapod fossil is of the millipede Pneumodesmus newmani, from the late Silurian (428 million years ago). P. newmani is also important as the earliest known terrestrial animal. [5] [6] The phylogenetic classification of myriapods is still debated.
The scientific study of myriapods is myriapodology, and those who study myriapods are myriapodologists. [7]
Myriarch (n.) A captain or commander of ten thousand men.
Myriare (n.) A measure of surface in the metric system containing ten thousand ares, or one million square meters. It is equal to about 247.1 acres.
Myrica (n.) A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.
Myricin (n.) A silky, crystalline, waxy substance, forming the less soluble part of beeswax, and regarded as a palmitate of a higher alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also myricyl alcohol.
Myricyl (n.) A hypothetical radical regarded as the essential residue of myricin; -- called also melissyl.
Myriological (a.) Of or relating to a myriologue.
Myriologist (n.) One who composes or sings a myriologue.
Myriologue (n.) An extemporaneous funeral song, composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend. [Modern Greece]
Myriophyllous (a.) (Bot.) Having an indefinitely great or countless number of leaves.
Myriopoda (n. pl.) See Myriapoda.
Myriorama (n.) A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.
Myrioscope (n.) A form of kaleidoscope.
Myristate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of myristic acid.
Myristic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg ({Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance.
Myristin (n.) (Chem.) The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.
Myristone (n.) (Chem.) The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Myrmicine (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to Myrmica, a genus of ants including the small house ant ({Myrmica molesta), and many others.
Myrmidon (n.) One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.Myrmidon (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc. -- Thackeray.
With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. -- W. H. Ainsworth.
Myrmidon (n.) A follower who carries out orders without question.
Myrmidon (n.) (Greek mythology) a member of the warriors who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy.
Myrmidon, (n.) A follower of Achilles -- particularly when he didn't lead.
Myrmidonian (a.) Consisting of, or like, myrmidons. -- Pope.
Myrmotherine (a.) (Zool.) Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds. Myrobalan
Myrobalan (n.) Alt. of Myrobolan.
Myrobolan (n.) A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.
Myrobalan (n.) Small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit [syn: cherry plum, myrobalan, myrobalan plum, Prunus cerasifera].
Myronic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, mustard; -- used specifically to designate a glucoside called myronic acid, found in mustard seed.
Myropolist (n.) One who sells unguents or perfumery. [Obs.] -- Jonhson.
Myrosin (n.) (Chem.) An enzyme, resembling diastase, found in mustard seeds.
Myroxylon (n.) (Bot.) A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America, the different species of which yield balsamic products, among which are balsam of Peru, and balsam of Tolu. The species were formerly referred to Myrospermum.
Myroxylon (n.) A genus of tropical American trees having pinnate leaves and white flowers [syn: Myroxylon, genus Myroxylon].
Myrrh (n.) 沒藥（用作香料或藥品的一種樹脂）；【植】沒藥樹 A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose.
False myrrh. See the Note under Bdellium.
Myrrh (n.) Aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume [syn: myrrh, gum myrrh, sweet cicely].
Myrrhic (a.) 沒藥的；沒藥樹樹膠脂的 Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, myrrh.
Myrrhine (a.) Murrhine.
Myrtaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large and important natural order of trees and shrubs (Myrtaceae), of which the myrtle is the type. It includes the genera Eucalyptus, Pimenta, Lechythis, and about seventy more.
Myrtiform (a.) Resembling myrtle or myrtle berries; having the form of a myrtle leaf.
Myrtle (n.) [C] (Bot.) 【植】桃金孃；【美】【植】長春花 A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.
Note: The name is also popularly but wrongly applied in America to two creeping plants, the blue-flowered periwinkle and the yellow-flowered moneywort. In the West Indies several myrtaceous shrubs are called myrtle.
Bog myrtle, The sweet gale.
Crape myrtle. See under Crape.
Myrtle warbler (Zool.), A North American wood warbler ({Dendroica coronata); -- called also myrtle bird, yellow-rumped warbler, and yellow-crowned warbler.
Myrtle wax. (Bot.) See Bayberry tallow, under Bayberry.
Sand myrtle, A low, branching evergreen shrub ({Leiophyllum buxifolium), growing in New Jersey and southward.
Wax+myrtle+({Myrica+cerifera">Wax myrtle ({Myrica cerifera). See Bayberry.
Myrtle (n.) Widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers [syn: myrtle, Vinca minor].
Myrtle (n.) Any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus.
Myrtle, () (Isa. 41:19; Neh. 8:15; Zech. 1:8), Hebrew hadas, known in the East by the name _as_, the Myrtus communis of the botanist. "Although no myrtles are now found on the mount (of Olives), excepting in the gardens, yet they still exist in many of the glens about Jerusalem, where we have often seen its dark shining leaves and white flowers. There are many near Bethlehem and about Hebron, especially near Dewir Dan, the ancient Debir. It also sheds its fragrance on the sides of Carmel and of Tabor, and fringes the clefts of the Leontes in its course through Galilee. We meet with it all through Central Palestine" (Tristram).
Myrtle, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 63
Housing Units (2000): 36
Land area (2000): 0.103924 sq. miles (0.269163 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.103924 sq. miles (0.269163 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44890
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 43.562649 N, 93.162899 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Myrtle, MN
Myrtle
Myrtle, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 407
Housing Units (2000): 183
Land area (2000): 0.568773 sq. miles (1.473116 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.568773 sq. miles (1.473116 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50280
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 34.558152 N, 89.117436 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38650
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Myrtle, MS
Myrtle
Myrtle (in American English) (n.) Any of a genus (Myrtus) of plants of the myrtle family, with evergreen leaves, white or pinkish flowers, and dark, fragrant berries.
Myrtle (n.) Any of various other plants, as the periwinkle and the California laurel.
Myrtle (a.) 【植】桃金孃科的 Designating a family (Mytraceae, order Myrtales) of dicotyledonous, evergreen trees and shrubs, including eucalyptus, guava, clove, and blue gum.
Compare: Ourselves
Ourselves, (pron.; sing. Ourself (?)).（反身代名詞）我們自己；（用以加強語氣）我們親自，我們本人 An emphasized form of the pronoun of the first person plural; -- used as a subject, usually with we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case.
We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal further then we usually do. -- Locke.
Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand. -- Dryden.
Ourselves (n. pl. ) of Myself.
Myself (pron.) （反身代名詞）我自己；（用以加強語氣）我親自，我本人 I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself.
Myselven (pron.) Myself.
Mysis (n.) (Zool.) A genus of small schizopod shrimps found both in fresh and salt water; the opossum shrimps. One species inhabits the Great Lakes of North America, and is largely eaten by the whitefish. The marine species form part of the food of right whales.
Mysis (n.) Type genus of the family Mysidae [syn: Mysis, genus Mysis].
Mystacal (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the upper lip, or mustache. Mystagogic
Mystagogic (a.) Alt. of Mystagogical.
Mystagogical (a.) Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.
Mystagogue (n.) 引人入祕教者；解釋或啟示宗教奧祕者；神祕教義信仰者；秘法家 One who interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind.
Mystagogue (n.) One who keeps and shows church relics.
Mystagogy (n.) 傳授宗教奧祕 The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
Mysterial (a.) Mysterious. [Obs.]
Mysteriarch (n.) One presiding over mysteries. [Obs.]
Mysterious (a.) 神祕的；不可思議的；詭祕的 Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; obscure not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.
Mysteriously (adv.) 神祕地，不可思議地，難以理解地；詭祕地，故弄玄虛地 In a mysterious manner.
Mysteriousness (n.) 神秘 The state or quality of being mysterious.
Mysteriousness (n.) Something mysterious; a mystery.
Mysterium (n.) (Historical) (Astronomy) 神秘物質 A mysterious element; specifically a hypothetical substance to which a galactic radio emission at 1665 megahertz was formerly attributed, later identified as an exceptionally strong component of a set of four spectral lines emitted by hydroxyl radicals in interstellar space.
Mysterium tremendum et fascinans (ph.) 戰兢又吸引的神秘 Trembling and fascinating mystery.
Mysterized (imp. & p. p.) of Mysterize.
Mysterizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mysterize.
Mysterize (v. t.) To make mysterious; to make a mystery of.
Mysterize (v. i.) (variants also British mysterise ) (-ed/ -ing/ -s) To cultivate mystery or a mysterious air.
Mysteries (n. pl. ) of Mystery.
Mystery (n.) 神秘，奧秘，秘密，玄妙，不可思議的事，奧跡，聖餐禮 A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can not be explained; hence, specifically, that which is beyond human comprehension.
Mystery (n.) A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory ceremonies; -- usually plural; as, the Eleusinian mysteries.
Mystery (n.) The consecrated elements in the eucharist.
Mystery (n.) Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma.
Mysteries (n. pl. ) of Mystery.
Mystery (n.) A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied.
Mystery (n.) A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city in the early part of the 14th century.
Mystic (a.) Alt. of Mystical.
Mystical (a.) 神祕的；信奉（或實踐）神祕主義的 Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.
Mystical (a.) Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon.