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Merino
Merino, a Spanish-origin sheep breed famed for fine wool; foundation of Australia's wool industry since 1797. Australia produces over 50% of world Merino wool; Merino clip averages roughly 18–20 microns.
Meriones
Meriones (jirds) is a genus of gerbils (Muridae, Gerbillinae) described by Illiger in 1811, with roughly 14 to 17 species from Morocco to Mongolia; it includes the Mongolian gerbil, the common pet and laboratory gerbil.
Merisa Fluctus
Merisa Fluctus is a 630-km-wide lava flow terrain (fluctus) on Venus at 20.5°N, 9.0°E, IAU-named in 2000 for an Adygan beekeeping goddess; one of 54 named Venus fluctus, mapped from Magellan radar data.
Merism
Merism (merismus, Greek merismos, "dividing") is a figure of speech naming opposite extremes or parts, like "heaven and earth" or "young and old," to express a totality; a type of synecdoche, prominent in Biblical Hebrew, distinct from the biological sense of repeated body parts.
Meristem
Meristem: undifferentiated, self-renewing plant tissue (apical, lateral, intercalary) that produces all permanent plant tissues; drives primary and secondary growth via WUS/CLV and hormone regulation.
Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC
Meristem Crop Performance Group is a crop-input company in Powell, Ohio, founded by Mitch Eviston in 2018, selling biologicals direct to farms with savings of up to 30%.
Meristics
Meristics is the taxonomic method of counting serially repeated body structures, such as fin rays, vertebrae, scales, and gill rakers, to characterize and distinguish organisms, especially fishes.
Merit (wife of Kha)
Merit was the wife of Kha, the foreman who oversaw construction of royal tombs at Deir el-Medina in the second half of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, around 1450–1400 BCE.
Merit Cudkowicz
Merit E. Cudkowicz is an American neurologist who leads ALS research at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief of Neurology and directs the HEALEY ALS Platform Trial.
Merit Hotel & Casino
Merit Hotel & Casino, also marketed as Merit Lefkoşa Hotel & Casino, is a five-star hotel and casino in northern Nicosia, Northern Cyprus, opened in 2008 as the city's first five-star hotel.
Merit Network
Merit Network is an independent nonprofit owned by Michigan's public universities, founded in 1966 and best known for managing the NSFNET backbone, the precursor to the modern Internet.
Merit TV
Merit TV, also known as Merit Street, is a defunct American television network launched by Phil McGraw in 2024, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025.
Meritamen (daughter of Ramesses II)
Meritamen, also written Meritamun or Merytamen, was a daughter of Ramesses II and Queen Nefertari who later became his Great Royal Wife; her tomb is QV 68.
Meritamen C and D (daughters of Thutmose III)
Meritamen C and D were princesses of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, likely daughters of the pharaoh Thutmose III, flourishing around 1450 BC during the New Kingdom.
Meritaten
Meritaten, also Merytaten, was an Egyptian royal woman of the Eighteenth Dynasty, eldest daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, Great Royal Wife of Smenkhkare, and possibly the female pharaoh Neferneferuaten.
Meritaten Tasherit
Meritaten Tasherit was a princess of Egypt's late Amarna period, 18th Dynasty, presumed daughter of Meritaten and granddaughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, known only from a few inscriptions at Amarna and Ashmunein.
Meritites I
Meritites I, also known as Merytyotes, was a queen of ancient Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a wife of King Khufu, known from monuments at Giza, including a false-door inscription.
Meritites II
Meritites II was a princess of Egypt's 4th Dynasty, probably a daughter of King Khufu and Queen Meritites I, buried at Giza with her husband Akhethetep.
Meritites IV
Meritites IV was a queen consort of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, a daughter of Pepi I and wife of a king Neferkare, presumably Pepi II, around 2250 BC.
Meritocracy
Meritocracy: rule or reward by merit, coined 1958 by Michael Young as satire in The Rise of the Meritocracy; rooted in Confucian imperial exams; now a contested ideal tied to equality of opportunity.
Meritorious nobles' estates and imperial estates
Meritorious nobles' estates and imperial estates (勋贵庄田与皇庄) were landed estates held by Ming nobles, imperial relatives, eunuchs, and the imperial household, concentrating land in the capital region.
Meritorious Service Medal (United States)
Meritorious Service Medal (MSM), United States military decoration established by Executive Order 11448 on January 16, 1969, for outstanding non-combat meritorious achievement or service, ranking below the Legion of Merit; distinct from the Defense MSM and Canadian MSM.
Meritorious Unit Commendation
Meritorious Unit Commendation (MUC), a U.S. Army unit award created in 1944 as the Meritorious Service Unit Plaque, given for six continuous months of exceptionally meritorious service in military operations against an armed enemy; Navy version dates from 1967, Air Force Meritorious Unit Award from 2004.
Meritum
Meritum was an 8-bit personal computer produced in the 1980s by the Mera-Elzab factory in Zabrze, Poland, and was the first Polish personal computer to reach serial production, about 2,500 units between 1984 and 1986.
Meritxell Huch
Meritxell Huch is a Spanish stem cell biologist known for organoid models of liver, stomach, and pancreas, and a director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden since 2022.
Meritz Financial Group
Meritz Financial Group (주식회사 메리츠금융지주) is a South Korean financial and insurance holding company, established in 2011 through a spin-off of Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance, Korea's oldest non-life insurer.
Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) was an American soldier, explorer, and governor who co-led the Lewis and Clark Expedition from the Mississippi to the Pacific, 1804 to 1806.
MERJ Exchange Limited
MERJ Exchange Limited, formerly Trop-X (Seychelles) Limited, is the Seychelles' only licensed securities exchange, an integrated market for equities, debt, and tokenized digital securities that listed the world's first tokenized stock in 2019.
Merja Kyllönen
Merja Kyllönen, born 1977, is a Finnish Left Alliance politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2024, after a 2014 to 2019 term.
Merk & Kremont
Merk & Kremont are an Italian DJ and production duo from Milan, formed in 2011 by Federico Mercuri and Giordano Cremona, known for progressive and electro house.