mahimahi

large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) ; the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found it warm waters (especially Hawaii) ;

mahjong

Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles ;

mahler

Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911) ;

mahlstick

a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush ;

mahoe

erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks ; shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament ;

mahogany

any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish ; wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture ;

mahogany family

tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees ;

mahogany tree

any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish ;

mahomet

the Arab prophet who, according to Islam, was the last messenger of Allah (570-632) ;

mahonia

evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia ;

mahonia aquifolium

ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries ;

mahonia nervosa

small shrub with grey-green leaves and yellow flowers followed by glaucous blue berries ;

mahound

the Arab prophet who, according to Islam, was the last messenger of Allah (570-632) ;

mahout

the driver and keeper of an elephant ;

mahratta

a member of a people of India living in Maharashtra ;

mahratti

an Indic language; the state language of Maharashtra in west central India; written in the Devanagari script ;

mahuang

Chinese ephedra yielding ephedrine ;

maia

type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution ;

maianthemum

sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae: false lily of the valley ;

maianthemum bifolium

small white-flowered plant of western Europe to Japan ;

maianthemum canadense

small two-leaved herb of the northern United States and parts of Canada having racemes of small fragrant white flowers ;

maid

an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) ; a female domestic ;

maid of honor

an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding ;

maiden

an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) ; (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored ;

maiden aunt

an unmarried aunt ;

maiden blue-eyed mary

small widely branching Western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado ;

maiden flight

the first flight of its kind; "the Stealth bomber made its maiden flight in 1989" ;

maiden name

a woman's surname before marriage ;

maiden over

(cricket) an over in which no runs are scored ;

maiden pink

low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink with a single pale pink flower with a crimson center ;

maiden voyage

the first voyage of its kind; "in 1912 the ocean liner Titanic sank on its maiden voyage" ;

maidenhair

any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds ;

maidenhair berry

slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds ;

maidenhair fern

any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds ;

maidenhair spleenwort

small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds ;

maidenhair tree

deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree ;

maidenhead

a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin ;

maidenhood

the childhood of a girl ;

maidenliness

behavior befitting a young maiden ;

maidhood

the childhood of a girl ;