Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
mare .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Astron.) Plural form of
mare , a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon. - noun plural (Bot.) A valuable timber tree of Panama.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
mare (lunar plain).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
- noun valuable timber tree of Panama
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Examples
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The word maria is Latin for seas; its singular is mare (MAHR ee).
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] InTheBeginning 2009
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Nonetheless, I shared my empty library out under the name maria i sweat your music collection
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Rendezvous: flirting by iTunes 2005
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Our new LRO LOLA dataset shows that the older highland impactor population can be clearly distinguished from the younger population in the lunar 'maria' -- giant impact basins filled with solidified lava flows [...]
Moon's 'Turbulent Youth' Exposed In NASA LRO Imagery (PICTURES) 2010
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The dark areas on the moon are known as maria (MAHR ee uh).
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] InTheBeginning 2009
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June 26th, 2009 5: 52 pm ET how comments come back to bite you ... i bet he is wishing he could take back all the self-righteous things he said during the clinton-lewinsky scandal. in the words of "maria", [he] "cant put the GENIUS back in the bottle".
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Interestingly, the far side has almost no "maria" or dark spots.
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Interestingly, the far side has almost no "maria" or dark spots.
Vail Daily - Top Stories Doug Dusenberry Special to the Vail Daily Vail, CO 2010
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The dark spots on the moon were named "maria," from the Latin word for seas, because scientists believed they were bodies of water.
Vail Daily - Top Stories Doug Dusenberry Special to the Vail Daily Vail, CO 2010
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I'd say give up on expecting "maria" to be have the same relationship with you that you had before, because basically you don't.
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Interestingly, the far side has almost no "maria" or dark spots.
treeseed commented on the word maria
Take a Letter, Maria by R. B. Greaves went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.
February 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word maria
"Down in our little valley there is a small stream where women of the village do laundry. I approach one who is only too glad to accept my chocolate ration to do it, her name is Maria. Everybody in Italy is called Maria, the men, the dogs, the trees."
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall'.
April 25, 2009
IndiaAmos commented on the word maria
Especially when spelled “mariah” (long comment with examples and etymological speculation there) and preceded by “black,” this word refers to a police van. See also “black maria.”
November 29, 2009