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Mao

//maʊ̯// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A common surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, usually referring to Mao Zedong.

    "As the revered Mao has said, 'There cannot be two suns in the same sky.'"

  2. 2
    A Sino-Tibetan language.
  3. 3
    A branch of the Omotic languages spoken in Ethiopia.
  4. 4
    A card game, named after Mao Zedong, in which players attempt to shed all their cards without violating certain unspoken rules.
Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of monoamine oxidase. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    The ma'oma'o, Gymnomyza samoensis, a large passerine bird native to Samoa.
  3. 3
    A fairy chess piece which moves identically to the xiangqi horse, moving one square orthogonally and then one square diagonally at a 135 degree angle. Similar to the chess knight, but has more limited movement as its movement can be obstructed by an intervening piece.
  4. 4
    an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin) wordnet

Etymology

From Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

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