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.

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  • 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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  • Take a Letter, Maria by R. B. Greaves went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.

    February 9, 2008

  • "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

  • 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