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Moray eel
Moray eels (family Muraenidae), over 200 species of benthic predatory eels, are known for raptorial pharyngeal jaws that shoot forward to swallow prey, nocturnal crevice hunting, and cooperative hunting with groupers.
Moray Firth
The Moray Firth is Scotland's largest estuarine embayment (5,230 km²) on the North Sea coast between Duncansby Head and Fraserburgh, home to the North Sea's only resident bottlenose dolphin population, protected by a 2005 Special Area of Conservation.
Moray West
Moray West is an 882 MW offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, off northeast Scotland, developed by Ocean Winds and able to power 1.3 million homes.
Morayo (album)
Morayo is the sixth studio album by Wizkid, released November 22, 2024. It is a 47-minute tribute to his late mother, Jane Dolapo Balogun, translating to "I see joy."
Morbid Angel
Morbid Angel, Tampa, Florida death metal band founded by Trey Azagthoth (1983 or 1984 by source), albums Altars of Madness, Blessed Are the Sick, Covenant, Illud Divinum Insanus, Kingdoms Disdained; Vincent and Tucker vocal eras, Earache to Silver Lining labels.
Morbihan
Morbihan (department 56), a department of southern Brittany, France, prefecture Vannes; named after the Gulf of Morbihan, "little sea" in Breton. 783,390 inhabitants in 2023, 249 communes, 5th French tourist department, Lorient second fishing port by tonnage.
Morbillivirosis
Morbillivirosis (canids and felids), also called canine distemper (CDV), is a non-WOAH-listed wildlife disease caused by Morbillivirus genus paramyxoviruses, affecting canids, felids, mustelids, and seals, reported voluntarily to WOAH via WAHIS-Wild.
Morbillivirus
Morbillivirus: genus of Paramyxoviridae (Orthoparamyxovirinae) negative-sense RNA viruses; 10 species including measles virus (Morbillivirus hominis), canine distemper, rinderpest, and PPRV; SLAMF1/NECTIN4 receptors, no neuraminidase.
Morbillivirus canis
Morbillivirus canis (Canine morbillivirus, canine distemper virus, CDV) is an enveloped negative-sense RNA paramyxovirus causing highly contagious, often fatal distemper in dogs, ferrets, and many carnivores; prevented by core MLV or recombinant vaccines.
Morbillivirus caprinae
Morbillivirus caprinae, the peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV), is a morbillivirus of goats and sheep causing peste des petits ruminants, a notifiable disease targeted for global eradication by 2030.
Morbius (film)
Morbius (2022) is a Sony Pictures superhero film directed by Daniel Espinosa, starring Jared Leto as the Marvel Comics living vampire Michael Morbius; released April 1, 2022, it earned $73 million domestically and sits in the Sony Spider-Man universe with Venom.
Morcellation
Morcellation is a surgical technique that divides large tissue specimens, such as uterine fibroids, into fragments removable through small incisions during minimally invasive surgery.
Morcheeba
Morcheeba is a British trip-hop band formed in London in 1995 by Paul and Ross Godfrey with singer Skye Edwards, who has sold 10 million records.
Morchella
Morchella, the true morels, is a genus of ascomycete fungi in Pezizales prized as edible spring mushrooms. About 72–78 phylogenetic species in Esculenta (yellow) and Elata (black) clades; East Asia is the diversity center; commercial cultivation achieved mainly in China.
Morchella esculenta
Morchella esculenta, the yellow or sponge morel, is an edible ascomycete fungus (basionym Phallus esculentus L. 1753) in the Esculenta clade, valued for flavor, nutrition, and polysaccharide bioactivities, with the toxic Gyromitra esculenta as its principal lookalike.
Mordant
A mordant is a substance, usually a metal salt such as alum or iron sulfate, that fixes a dye to a fiber by forming an insoluble dye-metal-fiber complex.
Mordecai
Mordecai (Hebrew Mordekhai) is the Benjaminite court figure of the Book of Esther, cousin and guardian of Queen Esther, who saves the Persian Jews from Haman.
Mordecai ben Nissan
Mordecai ben Nissan, also Mordecai ben Nisan ha-Zaken (died c. 1709), was a Polish-Lithuanian Karaite scholar and hazzan of Kukizów near Lwów, known for Dod Mordekhai.
Mordecai Kaplan
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (1881–1983) was an American rabbi, Jewish Theological Seminary educator, and founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, which he defined as the evolving civilization of the Jewish people.
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and essayist from Montreal, best known for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and his controversial writing on Quebec nationalism.
Mordecai Shelef
Mordecai Shelef was a Ford Motor Company catalysis researcher who worked on automotive exhaust chemistry and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Mordecai Sultansky
Mordecai Sultansky, also known as Mordecai ben Joseph Sultansky, was a nineteenth-century Karaite scholar and hazzan, born in Lutsk, who wrote the chronicle Zekher Ṣaddikim.
Mordechai Choder
Mordechai Choder, known professionally as Motti Choder, is an Israeli molecular biologist and Technion professor in Haifa known for showing that mRNA synthesis and decay are coupled processes.
Mordechai Dovid Unger (Bobov-45)
Mordechai Dovid Unger (מרדכי דוד אונגער), born 1954, is a Hasidic rebbe in Borough Park, Brooklyn, who has led Bobov-45 since a 2005 succession dispute split the Bobov dynasty.
Mordechai Eliyahu
Mordechai Eliyahu (מרדכי אליהו) was an Israeli Sephardic rabbi, halakhic authority, and kabbalist who served as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, or Rishon LeZion, from 1983 to 1993.
Mordechai Hager, Vizhnitz-Monsey
Mordechai Hager, known to followers as Reb Mottele, was the Vizhnitz rebbe in Monsey, New York, who led the dynasty's American branch for 46 years until his death in 2018.
Mordechai Haim
Mordechai "Moti" Haim (מוטי חיים), born 1954 in Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an Israeli retired footballer, a defender for Maccabi Jaffa and Maccabi Los Angeles who retired in 1980, and the drummer father of the band Haim's three sisters.
Mordechai Segev
Mordechai (Moti) Segev is an Israeli physicist and distinguished professor at the Technion in Haifa, credited with founding topological photonics, Anderson localization of light, and photorefractive solitons.
Mordechai Vanunu (מרדכי ואנונו)
Mordechai Vanunu (מרדכי ואנונו), Israeli former Dimona nuclear technician born 1954 in Morocco, revealed Israel's nuclear weapons program to the Sunday Times in 1986, was abducted by Mossad in Rome, served 18 years including 11 in solitary, and remains under annually renewed movement and speech restrictions since his 2004 release.
Mordeckai Magaritz
Mordeckai Magaritz (1944–1993) was an Israeli isotope geochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for carbon-isotope studies of geological boundaries, Negev Desert palaeoclimate, and Israel's coastal aquifers.