madagascar plum

small shrubby tree of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums ;

madake

large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely brown elsewhere ;

madam

a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady" ; a woman who runs a house of prostitution ;

madame

title used for a married Frenchwoman ;

madame curie

French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) ;

madame de maintenon

French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719) ;

madame de stael

French romantic writer (1766-1817) ;

madame tussaud

French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850) ;

madcap

a reckless impetuous irresponsible person ;

madder

Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin ;

madder family

widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry ;

madderwort

any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae ;

madeira

an amber dessert wine from the Madeira Islands ; an island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa; the largest of the Madeira Islands ; a Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River ;

madeira cake

a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine ;

madeira islands

a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal ;

madeira river

a Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River ;

madeira sponge

a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine ;

madeira winter cherry

small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit ;

madeiras

a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal ;

mademoiselle

small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico ;

madhouse

pejorative terms for an insane asylum ;

madia

genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light ;

madia elegans

California annual having red-brown spots near the base of its yellow flower rays ;

madia oil

used as a substitute for olive oil ;

madia oil plant

South American herb with sticky glandular foliage; source of madia oil ;

madia sativa

South American herb with sticky glandular foliage; source of madia oil ;

madison

capital of the state of Wisconsin; located in the southern part of state; site of the main branch of the University of Wisconsin ; 4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836) ;

madman

an insane person ;

madnep

biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip ;

madness

unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of divine madness" ; the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness" ; a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" ; an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain ; obsolete terms for legal insanity ;

madonna

United States pop singer and sex symbol during the 1980s (born in 1958) ; the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics ;

madonna lily

lily of eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers ;

madonna louise ciccone

United States pop singer and sex symbol during the 1980s (born in 1958) ;

madoqua

genus comprising some small antelopes of eastern and northeastern Africa ;

madras

a light patterned cotton cloth ; a city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras ; a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras ;

madrasa

Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan; "the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students"; "many madrasas in Bangladesh are supported with money from Saudi Arabia" ;

madrasah

Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan; "the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students"; "many madrasas in Bangladesh are supported with money from Saudi Arabia" ;

madreporaria

stony corals ;

madrepore

corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands ;

madrid

the capital and largest city situated centrally in Spain; home of an outstanding art museum ;