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Malus pumila
Malus pumila Mill. (1768) is a botanical name for the cultivated apple, now a rejected synonym of Malus domestica; covers its nomenclature, Miller's Paradise Apple sense, and apple domestication from Malus sieversii.
Malus sylvestris
Malus sylvestris, the European wild apple or crab apple, is a small deciduous Rosaceae tree native to Europe and Türkiye, IUCN Data Deficient, and a major secondary genomic contributor to the cultivated apple Malus domestica.
Malva
Malva (mallows) is a genus of Malvaceae herbs first published in 1753, with about 54-60 species native from the Old World to Australia and SW USA to NW Mexico; includes M. sylvestris and M. neglecta, used as food, ornamentals, and traditional medicine.
Malva sylvestris
Malva sylvestris, common mallow, is a Malvaceae herb native from Macaronesia and Europe to Central Asia and the W. Himalaya, with pink-purple veined flowers, EU-approved traditional medicinal uses, and food use.
Malvaceae
Malvaceae, known as the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants with about 4,200 species, largely tropical to temperate, including cotton, okra, cacao, durian, hibiscus, and baobab.
Malvales
Malvales, an order of flowering plants (rosid, near Brassicales and Sapindales) with 10 families, ~6,100 species, including Malvaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Cistaceae; cotton, cocoa, durian; Upper Cretaceous origin.
Malvasia
Malvasia (Malvoisie, Malvazija): not a single grape but a large Mediterranean family of mostly white Vitis vinifera varieties named after Monemvasia, making dry, sparkling, and sweet wines across Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal.
Malvern Panalytical
Malvern Panalytical is a British-Dutch manufacturer of analytical instruments for measuring particle size, zeta potential, and crystallographic structure, formed by the 2017 merger of Malvern Instruments and PANalytical.
Malvern Preparatory School
Malvern Preparatory School, commonly Malvern Prep, is an independent Catholic Augustinian all-boys day school for grades 6 to 12 in Malvern, Pennsylvania, founded by the Augustinians in 1842.
Malvika Bhagwat
Malvika Bhagwat is an education-technology investor who leads Outcomes and Portfolio Services at Owl Ventures, which she joined in 2019 as the firm's first platform hire.
Malvika Devi
Malvika Devi, born 1980, in New Delhi, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Kalahandi constituency of Odisha in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Malvika Nair
Malvika Nair, also credited Malavika Nair, is an Indian actress in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada cinema since 2012's Ustad Hotel, known for Cuckoo (2014), Yevade Subramanyam, Taxiwala and Kalki 2898 AD, with Filmfare Tamil Best Actress honors.
Malvin Ruderman
Malvin Ruderman (1927–2024) was an American astrophysicist at Columbia University, best known for showing that neutron stars have solid crusts and explaining pulsar glitches as starquakes.
Malvinder Mohan Singh
Malvinder Mohan Singh (मलविंदर मोहन सिंह) is an Indian businessman who, with his brother Shivinder, sold drugmaker Ranbaxy to Daiichi Sankyo in 2008 for $4.6 billion and promoted Fortis Healthcare.
Malwa (मालवा)
Malwa (मालवा), also Malava, is a historical region and Deccan Trap basalt plateau in west-central India, anciently Avanti with capital Ujjain, later ruled by the Paramaras, the Malwa Sultanate at Mandu, the Mughals, and Maratha chiefs Holkar, Sindhia and Pawar.
Malwa campaign of Baji Rao
The Malwa campaign of Baji Rao (मालवा मोहीम) was the Maratha operations from 1724 by which Peshwa Baji Rao I took Malwa from Mughal control.
Malwa invasion and death of Grahavarman
The Malwa invasion and death of Grahavarman was an attack on Kanyakubja by Devagupta of Malwa and Shashanka of Gauda, killing the Maukhari king about 605.
Malwan
Malwan is a small excavated settlement mound on the south bank of the Tapti river in Surat district, Gujarat, India, with a late Harappan Chalcolithic occupation dated circa 1400–1000 B.C.
Malware
Malware, also known as malicious software, is software or firmware intended to perform unauthorized processes that harm information systems, covering viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, spyware, and some adware.
Malware attribution
Malware attribution is the evidence-based assessment that malicious software and intrusions connect to a specific threat actor, campaign, organization, or state sponsor, using technical evidence.
Malware-as-a-service
Malware-as-a-service (MaaS) is a criminal business model in which skilled developers rent ready-made malware to non-technical affiliates who conduct attacks, usually sharing the revenue under an affiliate structure.
Malwarebytes
Malwarebytes, also known as Malwarebytes Inc., is an American cybersecurity company in Santa Clara, California, founded by Marcin Kleczynski, known for its free malware removal scanner and paid real-time protection.
Malwarebytes (software)
Malwarebytes, also known as Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, is anti-malware software founded by Marcin Kleczynski in 2008, known for its free scanner and behavior-based real-time protection against ransomware and spyware.
Malwida von Meysenbug
Malwida von Meysenbug (1816–1903) was a German writer, feminist, and educator, a 1848 revolutionary exile whose bestselling memoir Memoiren einer Idealistin inspired the first German women's movement.
Malwinder Singh Kang
Malwinder Singh Kang is an Indian politician of the Aam Aadmi Party, elected to the Lok Sabha from Punjab's Anandpur Sahib constituency in 2024 after serving as the party's Punjab spokesperson.
Maly Lyakhovsky Island
Ostrov Malyy Lyakhovskiy (Малый Ляховский), or Maly Lyakhovsky Island, is the second largest Lyakhovsky Island in the New Siberian Islands, Laptev Sea, Yakutia; upper Jurassic–lower Cretaceous bedrock, thermokarst terraces, and the 2012 find of a female woolly mammoth carcass with preserved soft tissue.
Malyuta Skuratov
Malyuta Skuratov (Малюта Скуратов) was the best known of Ivan the Terrible's oprichniki, who strangled metropolitan Filipp and directed executions in Novgorod before dying in 1573.
MAM signalling in ageing and disease
Mitochondria-associated membranes (MAMs) are 10–30 nm contact sites between the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria that relay calcium, ROS, and immune signals, and change with age.
Mama (2013 film)
Mama is a 2013 supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti, based on his 2008 short film, about two feral girls and the ghost they call Mama.
MAMA (music)
The MAMA Awards (Korean: 엠넷 아시안 뮤직 어워즈), formerly the Mnet Asian Music Awards, is an annual K-pop awards show presented by Mnet and CJ ENM since 1999.