{ "MAM":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a Mayan language of the Mam people":[], ": a member of such people":[], ": an Indian people of southwestern Guatemala":[], ": mom":[], "milliampere minute":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "Spanish mame , of American Indian origin":"Noun", "of baby-talk origin":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8mam", "\u02c8m\u00e4m" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023539", "type":[ "abbreviation", "noun" ] }, "Mamak":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": one of several forest peoples of Sumatra related to the Toala of Sulawesi":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8m\u00e4\u02ccm\u00e4k" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060742", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "mam":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a Mayan language of the Mam people":[], ": a member of such people":[], ": an Indian people of southwestern Guatemala":[], ": mom":[], "milliampere minute":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "Spanish mame , of American Indian origin":"Noun", "of baby-talk origin":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8m\u00e4m", "\u02c8mam" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092743", "type":[ "abbreviation", "noun" ] }, "mama":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": mother":[], ": wife , woman":[] }, "examples":[ "I'm not your mama \u2014you'll have to clean up after yourself.", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Being a protective mama bird is only natural, so this costume, where your belly is disguised as an egg, is especially adorable. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 13 June 2022", "In the clip it is used to screen footage from the video, as well as grainy home videos of Halsey during their pregnancy and a shot of proud mama snuggling with baby Ender Ridley. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 10 June 2022", "Together, Claire and Owen have adopted Maisie, keeping her hidden in a remote cabin, where liberated mama raptor Blue runs wild with her baby, Beta. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 8 June 2022", "She's become a bit of a mama bird herself since starting the Bonaire Wild Bird Rehab in 2018 after about 500 baby and fledgling flamingos were found wandering the streets over the course of only a few months. \u2014 Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure , 3 June 2022", "Being a mama is exhausting and rewarding and definitely not for everyone. \u2014 Vogue , 8 May 2022", "Dymtryk said her nonprofit was working with the homeowner to begin relocating the mama raccoon and her babies safely on Wednesday. \u2014 Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 May 2022", "At the sound of the flashlight hitting the window, Floyd turned to the officer with the panicked look of a man whose mama had told him what could happen when a Black man encountered the wrong police officer. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022", "Submitted by mama photographers worldwide (IG @eyemamaproject). \u2014 Vogue , 8 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1579, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "baby talk":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "chiefly British m\u0259-\u02c8m\u00e4", "\u02c8m\u00e4-m\u0259" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "ma", "mammy", "mater", "mom", "mommy", "mother", "old lady" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190009", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "mama's boy":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a usually polite or timid boy or man who is extremely or excessively close to and solicitous of his mother":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "By his own admission, Dustin Vitale is a mama's boy . \u2014 Steve Hartman, CBS News , 26 Mar. 2021", "Before that day, the chipper 23-year-old was known as a mama's boy . \u2014 Eliott C. Mclaughlin, CNN , 3 June 2020", "Both huge mama's boys , doing any and everything for our mothers. \u2014 Trey Moses, Indianapolis Star , 30 Apr. 2017", "That said, did anyone else see Dr. G as a mama's boy ", "Aiken credits his character to his mother, calling himself a mama's boy even now. \u2014 Allison Glock, Esquire , 1 Nov. 2014" ], "first_known_use":{ "1850, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090533", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "mamaliga":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a Romanian dish of cornmeal mush often garnished with cheese or sour cream":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "1808, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Romanian m\u0103m\u0103lig\u0103":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "(\u02cc)m\u0259m\u0259-", "(\u02cc)m\u00e4m\u00e4\u02c8l\u0113g\u0259", "(\u02cc)m\u00e4m\u0259-" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-180631", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "mamaloi":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a voodoo priestess especially of Haiti \u2014 compare papaloi":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "Haitian creole mamalwa , from mama mother + lwa loa":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02ccm\u00e4m\u0259l\u02c8w\u00e4" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125504", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "mamma":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a mammary gland and its accessory parts":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "borrowed from New Latin, going back to Latin, \"breast, udder, mother,\" nursery word with cognate or parallel formations in other Indo-European languages, as Old Irish muimme \"nurse, foster mother,\" Welsh mam \"mother,\" Russian m\u00e1ma, Lithuanian mam\u00e0, mom\u00e0, Greek m\u00e1mm\u0113 \"mother, grandmother,\" Armenian mam \"grandmother,\" Sanskrit m\u0101ma\u1e25 \"uncle\"":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8mam-\u0259", "\u02c8ma-m\u0259" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220822", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "mammoth":{ "antonyms":[ "astronomical", "astronomic", "Brobdingnagian", "bumper", "colossal", "cosmic", "cosmical", "cyclopean", "elephantine", "enormous", "galactic", "gargantuan", "giant", "gigantesque", "gigantic", "grand", "herculean", "heroic", "heroical", "Himalayan", "huge", "humongous", "humungous", "immense", "jumbo", "king-size", "king-sized", "leviathan", "massive", "mega", "mighty", "monster", "monstrous", "monumental", "mountainous", "oceanic", "pharaonic", "planetary", "prodigious", "super", "super-duper", "supersize", "supersized", "titanic", "tremendous", "vast", "vasty", "walloping", "whacking", "whopping" ], "definitions":{ ": any of a genus ( Mammuthus ) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair":[], ": of very great size":[], ": something immense of its kind":[ "the company is a mammoth of the industry" ] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "even as sport-utility vehicles go, that one is a mammoth", "Adjective", "Renovating the house is a mammoth undertaking.", "a mammoth book with color plates of birds native to North America", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Sportman will focus on the discovery in 1913 of mastodon remains at the Hill-Stead estate of A.A. Pope in Farmington, and Kitchel will talk about remains of a wooly mammoth discovered in 1848 in Mount Holly, Vermont. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 26 Mar. 2022", "This particular specimen was likely a mammoth in its 30s, based off the degree of wear on the tooth, according to Widga. \u2014 Zoe Sottile, CNN , 19 Mar. 2022", "In the Colorado River basin, Glen Canyon Dam is the mammoth of power production, delivering electricity to about 5 million customers in seven states \u2014 Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. \u2014 Felicia Fonseca, The Arizona Republic , 14 Apr. 2022", "Neal, a mammoth 6-foot-7, 335-pounder who has played both tackle positions at Alabama, is likely to fit right in with a line that has been a weakness in New York for years. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 28 Apr. 2022", "Several dilapidated versions of real-life landmarks make appearances, like San Francisco\u2019s Lombard Street and the Golden Gate Bridge, as do massive new enemy robots like a hulking mammoth and snapping turtle. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2020", "But the edges of the state were exposed -- and these areas tend to turn up mammoth remains. \u2014 Zoe Sottile, CNN , 19 Mar. 2022", "As an example, Lindsey cites the sculpture of a Columbian mammoth sinking into the Lake Pit outside the La Brea Tar Pits Museum\u2014a portrayal that could perpetuate the misconception that asphalt pools were like quicksand. \u2014 Sam Jones, Scientific American , 10 Mar. 2022", "Mammoths arrived on what is now North America around one million years ago and evolved into the Columbian mammoth , which stood over 14-feet tall and weighed around 20,000 pounds, according to the National Park Service. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 29 Nov. 2021", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "Wong credits her former partner from Van Da, the restaurateur Yen Ngo and the artist Darren Waterston, for inviting her upstate to partake in the duo\u2019s mammoth multi-dining project. \u2014 Laura Neilson, Vogue , 18 Feb. 2022", "The goal is to use genetic engineering to create a living elephant- mammoth hybrid that looks just like a woolly mammoth. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 18 Sep. 2021", "The audit offers the first estimate for Illinois\u2019 share of the mammoth fraud that swept the country during the pandemic as states were hit with a deluge of unemployment claims. \u2014 Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022", "When bitten into, during the inhumane ordeal of commercial air travel, this mammoth creation\u2014both oddly nostalgic and obscenely indulgent, maybe a bit like Los Angeles itself\u2014feels like a small, rebellious act of pleasure. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 10 June 2022", "As the warmth of the air helps these lakes expand by thawing ground around them that had been frozen for perhaps thousands of years, microorganisms feast on the suddenly available specks of ancient plants and mammoth femurs. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 4 June 2022", "She was elected to a House of Representatives that had just been taken over by Republicans, including a mammoth freshman class of 87 GOP lawmakers, many of them members of the tea party. \u2014 Jennifer Haberkornstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022", "When completed, the mammoth installation will transform the quaint fishing harbor and resort town, with its key resting spot for migrating bird species, into a bustling beachhead. \u2014 Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor , 3 June 2022", "Former resident choreographer Adam Hougland staged three mammoth works for the company, each representing a level of boldness rarely seen in the company before. \u2014 David Lyman, The Enquirer , 26 May 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "1706, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun", "1801, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "borrowed from Dutch mammut, mammuth, borrowed from 17th-century Russian mamant, probably borrowed from a presumed compound in Mansi (Finno-Ugric language of western Siberia), in modern dialects m\u0101\u014b-\u0101\u0144t, m\u0113\u032e\u014b-o\u0144t, m\u0101\u0354\u014b-ont, m\u0101\u0354\u014b-\u0101\u0354\u0144t, literally, \"earth horn,\" referring to tusks of the wooly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius ) found in arctic and subarctic Siberia":"Noun", "derivative of mammoth entry 1":"Adjective" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8ma-m\u0259th" ], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for mammoth Adjective enormous , immense , huge , vast , gigantic , colossal , mammoth mean exceedingly large. enormous and immense both suggest an exceeding of all ordinary bounds in size or amount or degree, but enormous often adds an implication of abnormality or monstrousness. an enormous expense an immense shopping mall huge commonly suggests an immensity of bulk or amount. incurred a huge debt vast usually suggests immensity of extent. the vast Russian steppes gigantic stresses the contrast with the size of others of the same kind. a gigantic sports stadium colossal applies especially to a human creation of stupendous or incredible dimensions. a colossal statue of Lincoln mammoth suggests both hugeness and ponderousness of bulk. a mammoth boulder", "synonyms":[ "behemoth", "blockbuster", "colossus", "dinosaur", "dreadnought", "elephant", "giant", "Goliath", "jumbo", "leviathan", "mastodon", "monster", "titan", "whale", "whopper" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211552", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "mammy":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a Black woman serving as a nurse to white children especially formerly in the southern U.S.":[], ": mama":[] }, "examples":[ "the toddler clung to her mammy and eyed the strangers fearfully", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Toxic archetypes of Black womanhood\u2014the mammy , the Black matriarch, the jezebel (or the Scraggle Daggle, in SYSBM parlance), and the welfare mother\u2014are all alive and well in the Black Manosphere. \u2014 Nicole Young, ELLE , 26 Jan. 2022", "One example given is the Aunt Jemima brand and logo, a depiction of an older Black woman based on the archetype of a mammy . \u2014 Leah Asmelash, CNN , 1 Mar. 2021", "The song features a mammy , a racial stereotype of the Black female caretaker figure devoted to her white family. \u2014 Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY , 30 June 2020", "No human being deserves to be in a cage, but this notion that Black women must play mammy and Moses for the world is killing us, while police officers with licenses to kill are murdering our children. \u2014 Kirsten West Savali, Essence , 3 Oct. 2019", "Saar enlarged the slave ship image, printed it onto the surface of the ironing board, and at one end superimposed the image of a black woman ironing, dressed stereotypically as a mammy . \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Sep. 2019", "But what complicates Hildi is the history of how black women, and especially slaves, have been treated in real life (raped, beaten) and depicted onscreen (as mammies or Jezebels). \u2014 Aisha Harris, New York Times , 7 Aug. 2019", "The Help in 2011, doesn\u2019t seem to get that Ma operates as a black- mammy stereotype. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 7 June 2019", "Violent, upsetting and misleading grindhouse documentaries designed to repulse our moral sense and send us home shaken, primed to become good Catholic child soldiers who would protect defenceless wee babbies from their own mammies . \u2014 Graham Linehan, Time , 25 May 2018" ], "first_known_use":{ "1523, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "alteration of mamma":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8ma-m\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "ma", "mama", "mamma", "momma", "mater", "mom", "mommy", "mother", "old lady" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072310", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "mammee":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a tropical American tree ( Mammea americana ) having a globular or ovoid fruit with thick russet or reddish leathery rind and yellow or reddish juicy flesh":[], ": the fruit of this tree":[], ": marmalade tree":[], ": sapodilla":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Spanish mamey , from Taino":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185224" }, "Mammea":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a genus of American and Asiatic trees (family Guttiferae) that have a valvate 2-parted calyx and 2-celled or 4-celled ovary becoming a large drupaceous fruit":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "m\u0259\u02c8m\u0113\u0259", "ma\u02c8-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "New Latin, from Spanish mamey mammee":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193831" }, "mamme":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the overwintering crop of the caprifig maturing in the spring \u2014 compare mammoni , profichi":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8m\u00e4m\u0101" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Italian dialect, plural of mamma , literally, breast, from Latin; from the shape of the fruit":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213322" }, "mammoni":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the autumn crop of the caprifig \u2014 compare mamme , profichi":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8m\u00e4m\u0259\u02ccn\u0113" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Italian dialect, plural of mammone , literally, large breast, augmentative of mamma breast":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-012420" }, "mammary gland":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of the large compound modified sebaceous glands that in female mammals are modified to secrete milk, are situated ventrally in pairs, and usually terminate in a nipple":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "The team\u2019s method involved removing the nucleus from a Scottish Blackface sheep\u2019s egg cell and electroshocking it with a mammary gland cell from a Finn Dorset sheep to enable the two to fuse. \u2014 Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 May 2022", "In 1996, researchers at the Roslin Institute cloned a cell taken from the mammary gland of a 6-year-old Finn Dorset sheep and an egg cell taken from a Scottish blackface sheep, and the result was Dolly. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 May 2021", "This work is from observational studies in people and the ability of these chemicals to cause mammary gland tumors in animal studies. \u2014 Linda S. Birnbaum And Margaret L. Kripke, STAT , 21 Nov. 2020", "Mammals are a class of animals so named because their young are kept alive with milk produced by the mammary glands of the females. \u2014 James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com , 21 Aug. 2019", "Years later, after her recovery, Ramsdell decided to leave the heart behind and to start looking for asymmetry in the mammary glands of mammals. \u2014 Tim Vernimmen, Quanta Magazine , 31 Jan. 2017", "But her initial studies of mice proved disappointing \u2014 their left and right mammary glands didn\u2019t seem to differ at all. \u2014 Tim Vernimmen, Quanta Magazine , 31 Jan. 2017", "Unfortunately, cancer in the mammary glands (similar to breast cancer in humans) can also occur in both male and female dogs. \u2014 Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle , 20 June 2018", "The chances of a tumor being cancerous increases with age, so pay special attention to any abnormalities in your older pup\u2019s mammary glands . \u2014 Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle , 20 June 2018" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1826, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025411" }, "mammatus":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": of, relating to, or being a cloud whose lower surface is in the form of pouches":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "ma\u02c8-", "m\u0259\u02c8m\u0101t\u0259s" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "New Latin, from Latin, of the breast":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-034533" }, "mammonish":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of mammon":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8mam\u0259nish" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054113" }, "mammatocumulus":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a cumulus or cumulostratus storm cloud having breast-shaped protuberances below":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "m\u0259\u00a6m\u0101t\u014d", "ma\u00a6m\u0101t\u014d+" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "New Latin, from Latin mammatus of the breast + New Latin -o- + cumulus":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-090057" }, "mammon":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": material wealth or possessions especially as having a debasing influence":[ "you cannot serve God and mammon", "\u2014 Matthew 6:24 (Revised Standard Version)" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8ma-m\u0259n" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "In these books, we Americans are portrayed horribly \u2014 somehow simultaneously slovenly and uptight, perpetually dressed in spandex yet overweight, arrogant yet superficially friendly, impervious to pleasure and obsessed with mammon . \u2014 New York Times , 12 June 2018" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from Late Latin mammona , from Greek mam\u014dna , from Aramaic m\u0101m\u014dn\u0101 riches":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103538" }, "mammary":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": of, relating to, lying near, or affecting the mammae":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8ma-m\u0259-r\u0113", "\u02c8mam-\u0259-r\u0113" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Shearer was diagnosed with invasive mammary carcinoma, an aggressive form of breast cancer, in March at age 40. \u2014 Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022", "Wilk, which has its lab outside of Tel Aviv, has been using breast milk and mammary cells that have been removed during breast reduction surgeries and provided by a local hospital. \u2014 Michela Moscufo, ABC News , 9 June 2022", "First, the startup needs to grow mammary cells at a much larger scale \u2014 and at a lower cost. \u2014 Milly Chan, CNN , 3 May 2022", "Now, brands like Parfait and Elila follow the mammary , producing sizes up to J or K, the latter the equivalent of a DDDDDDDD. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Jan. 2022", "To make the milk, BIOMILQ, the company the pair co-founded in 2020, grows mammary cells in flasks and then places them in bioreactors. \u2014 Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022", "Ductal carcinoma in situ is a breast cancer that is entirely contained within the mammary ducts of the breast. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 27 Jan. 2022", "Breast milk is produced by the mammary glands in response to different hormones circulating in a woman's body during the final months of pregnancy. \u2014 Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY , 31 Aug. 2021", "Female dogs that are never spayed or that are spayed after their first heat are also at higher risk for mammary cancer. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Aug. 2020" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "borrowed from New Latin mamm\u0101rius, from Latin mamma \"breast, udder\" + -\u0101rius -ary entry 2 \u2014 more at mamma":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1615, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104414" }, "mammer":{ "type":[ "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": waver , hesitate":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English mameren to stammer, of imitative origin":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "circa 1555, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105715" }, "mammonist":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": one devoted to the ideal or pursuit of wealth":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8ma-m\u0259-nist" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1548, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105923" }, "mammonite":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": mammonist":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-130920" }, "Mamma mia":{ "type":[ "interjection" ], "definitions":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8m\u00e4-m\u0259-\u02c8m\u0113-\u0259" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "borrowed from Italian mammam\u00eca, mamma mia, exclamation expressing annoyance, fatigue, fear, etc., literally \"my mother!\"":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1860, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-131003" }, "mammalogy":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a branch of zoology dealing with mammals":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "-\u02c8m\u00e4l-", "m\u0259-\u02c8ma-l\u0259-j\u0113", "-\u02c8m\u00e4-", "ma-\u02c8mal-", "m\u0259-\u02c8mal-\u0259-j\u0113", "ma-\u02c8ma-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Working with him in the mammalogy lab was a guy quite enthusiastic about voles. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Mar. 2021", "A few years ago, Link Olson wanted students in his mammalogy class to see one of the neatest little creatures in Alaska, the northern flying squirrel. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Mar. 2021", "Tests swiftly verified that WAM's taxidermied platypuses did indeed glow, which made Kenny Travouillon, the museum's curator of mammalogy , wonder if there might be other unexpected ultraviolet biofluorescence lurking in their collections. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Dec. 2020", "Chroman teaches a variety of classes at Santa Ana College and the California Naturalist Program through the UC Agricultural and Natural Resources department and specializes in conservation biology, mammalogy , ornithology and ecology. \u2014 Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times , 28 Oct. 2020", "Further growth of whale watching is questionable, according to Masao Amano, a marine mammalogy professor at Nagasaki University and advisor to the Japan Whale and Dolphin Watching Council. \u2014 Rachel Fobar, National Geographic , 15 Mar. 2019" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "borrowed from French mammalogie, by haplology from *mammalologie, from mammal- (base of New Latin Mammalia or French mammalien \"mammalian\") + -o- -o- + -logie -logy \u2014 more at mammal":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1833, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-132952" }, "mammary pouch":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the marsupium of a monotreme as distinguished from that of a marsupial":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-152211" }, "mammography":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": X-ray examination of the breasts (as for early detection of cancer)":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "-f\u0113", "ma-\u02c8m\u00e4-gr\u0259-f\u0113" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "The building will house 72 exam rooms, 30 consultation rooms, a community center, dental suite with eight exam chairs, an optometry suite, and an imaging suite with X-ray, MRI, mammography and ultrasound machines. \u2014 Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022", "Some treatments are deemed necessary based on your age or gender, such as a colonoscopy or mammography . \u2014 Dallas Ducar, STAT , 15 Mar. 2022", "Since 1977, when mammography began to be widely used to screen for breast cancer, roughly 1.2 million women have had surgery for low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ. \u2014 David Ropeik, STAT , 28 Feb. 2022", "Recent research suggests there may be a role in the future for thermography, possibly in combination with mammography , but the data on breast cancer shows poor accuracy. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 24 Aug. 2021", "But mammography screenings can also cause doctors to prescribe unnecessary tests and treatments for tumors that would not have progressed or for tumors that would have progressed, but not caused symptoms in a patient's lifetime. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 Mar. 2022", "Breast: Women should have the option to start screening with mammography once a year, starting at age 40, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). \u2014 Korin Miller, Health.com , 23 Feb. 2022", "That means more veterans will need access to gynecological care, mammography and other care, according to the report. \u2014 Matthew Brown, USA TODAY , 14 Mar. 2022", "Despite four decades of mammography screening, for example, the incidence of metastatic breast cancer remains virtually unchanged. \u2014 H. Gilbert Welch, STAT , 14 Jan. 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Latin mamma \"breast\" + -o- + -graphy \u2014 more at mamma":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1937, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-165107" }, "mammal":{ "type":[ "adjective", "adjective or noun", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals , marsupials , or monotremes ) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands , have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8ma-m\u0259l", "\u02c8mam-\u0259l" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Human beings, dogs, and cats are all mammals .", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The tiny mammal covered about 1,545 miles\u2014from Borok, Russia, to the French village of Lully\u2014in 63 days. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 21 June 2022", "But why is a forest-dwelling mammal associated with scared investors dumping shares on Wall Street", "When Happy the elephant arrived at the Bronx Zoo in 1977, the herbivorous mammal was placed inside a fenced area separating her from the zoo\u2019s other elephant. \u2014 Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post , 14 June 2022", "The mammal has been in urban \u2014 decidedly non-seaside \u2014 locations before: the median of a busy freeway, near a delicatessen and at a busy boulevard. \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 17 May 2022", "Dolphins are not the only mammal the Russian Navy trains as protectors. \u2014 Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022", "After a year the whale could no longer fit in SeaWorld\u2019s largest tank, and was released, despite worries that the mammal would not be able to fend for herself in the open ocean. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Mar. 2022", "The mammal also has wounds caused by boats, and there are concerns about its safety, officials said. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022", "Bison are the largest land mammal in North America, with the biggest male bison weighing up to 2,000 pounds. \u2014 Fox News , 21 May 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "from base of New Latin Mammalia (Linnaeus), class name, noun derivative from neuter plural of mamm\u0101lis, from Latin mamma \"breast, udder\" + -\u0101lis -al entry 1 \u2014 more at mamma":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1811, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224756" }, "mamba":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of several chiefly arboreal venomous green or black elapid snakes (genus Dendroaspis ) of sub-Saharan Africa":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8m\u00e4m-b\u0259", "\u02c8mam-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "These range from observing the approach of a mamba in Kenya to being let out of a speeding ticket at 2 a.m. in New York. \u2014 Bill Heavey, WSJ , 27 May 2022", "In April, Gifford said he was bitten by a West African green mamba while cleaning the enclosures in his home. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 July 2021", "Spikes for mamba occurred after the January death of Kobe Bryant, whose nickname was the Black Mamba. \u2014 Leanne Italie, Anchorage Daily News , 1 Dec. 2020", "Spikes for mamba occurred after the January death of Kobe Bryant, whose nickname was the Black Mamba. \u2014 NBC News , 30 Nov. 2020", "Spikes for mamba occurred after the January death of Kobe Bryant, whose nickname was the Black Mamba. \u2014 Leanne Italie, Anchorage Daily News , 1 Dec. 2020", "Spikes for mamba occurred after the January death of Kobe Bryant, whose nickname was the Black Mamba. \u2014 NBC News , 30 Nov. 2020", "Spikes for mamba occurred after the January death of Kobe Bryant, whose nickname was the Black Mamba. \u2014 Leanne Italie, Anchorage Daily News , 1 Dec. 2020", "Spikes for mamba occurred after the January death of Kobe Bryant, whose nickname was the Black Mamba. \u2014 NBC News , 30 Nov. 2020" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Zulu imamba":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1839, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225723" }, "mammals":{ "type":[ "adjective", "adjective or noun", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals , marsupials , or monotremes ) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands , have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8ma-m\u0259l", "\u02c8mam-\u0259l" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Human beings, dogs, and cats are all mammals .", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The tiny mammal covered about 1,545 miles\u2014from Borok, Russia, to the French village of Lully\u2014in 63 days. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 21 June 2022", "But why is a forest-dwelling mammal associated with scared investors dumping shares on Wall Street", "When Happy the elephant arrived at the Bronx Zoo in 1977, the herbivorous mammal was placed inside a fenced area separating her from the zoo\u2019s other elephant. \u2014 Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post , 14 June 2022", "The mammal has been in urban \u2014 decidedly non-seaside \u2014 locations before: the median of a busy freeway, near a delicatessen and at a busy boulevard. \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 17 May 2022", "Dolphins are not the only mammal the Russian Navy trains as protectors. \u2014 Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022", "After a year the whale could no longer fit in SeaWorld\u2019s largest tank, and was released, despite worries that the mammal would not be able to fend for herself in the open ocean. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Mar. 2022", "The mammal also has wounds caused by boats, and there are concerns about its safety, officials said. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022", "Bison are the largest land mammal in North America, with the biggest male bison weighing up to 2,000 pounds. \u2014 Fox News , 21 May 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "from base of New Latin Mammalia (Linnaeus), class name, noun derivative from neuter plural of mamm\u0101lis, from Latin mamma \"breast, udder\" + -\u0101lis -al entry 1 \u2014 more at mamma":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1811, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002859" }, "Mamanua":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": an indigenous people inhabiting northern Mindanao, Philippines":[], ": a member of the Mamanua people":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "m\u0259\u02c8m\u00e4nw\u0259" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021954" } }