Nouns starting with M

• Mandrillus sphinx — Noun – English ～ baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters
• Mentha spicata — Noun – English ～ common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring
• meadow spikemoss — Noun – English ～ spikemoss forming dense mats; eastern North America
• Mickey Spillane — Noun – English ～ United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918)
• mountain spinach — Noun – English ～ Asiatic plant resembling spinach often used as a potherb; naturalized in Europe and North America
• medulla spinalis — Noun – English ～ a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region
• money-spinner — Noun – English ～ a project that generates a continuous flow of money
• Macrozamia spiralis — Noun – English ～ large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales
• methylated spirit — Noun – English ～ ethyl alcohol denatured with methyl alcohol to prevent its use as an alcoholic beverage
• meadow spittlebug — Noun – English ～ North American insect that severely damages grasses
• mountain spleenwort — Noun – English ～ a spleenwort of eastern North America
• maidenhair spleenwort — Noun – English ～ small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds
• Madeira sponge — Noun – English ～ a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine
• myrtle spurge — Noun – English ～ poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil
• magic square — Noun – English ～ a square matrix of n rows and columns; the first n^2 integers are arranged in the cells of the matrix in such a way that the sum of any row or column or diagonal is the same
• market square — Noun – English ～ a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold
• method of least squares — Noun – English ～ a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve
• marrow squash — Noun – English ～ any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh
• Maja squinado — Noun – English ～ a large spider crab of Europe
• mantled ground squirrel — Noun – English ～ common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunk

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