Mushy peas Mushy peas are dried marrowfat peas which are first soaked overnight and then simmered until they form a green lumpy paste. Sodium bicarbonate is often added to soften the peas and to inhibit fermentation during soaking which reduces later flatulence. They are a very traditional northern England accompaniment to fish and chips, or in the North West are commonly served as part of the popular snack of pie and peas and are considered a part of traditional British cuisine.
	Music Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch, rhythm, harmony, and timbre. Music involves complex generative forms in time through the construction of patterns and combinations of natural stimuli, principally sound.
	Musical box A musical box is a 19th century automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to strike the tuned teeth of a comb. They were developed from musical Box#Snuff boxes of the 18th century, and called carillons à musique.
	Musical Instrument Digital Interface Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is an industry-standard electronic communications protocol that defines each musical note or event in an electronic musical instrument or show device such as a synthesizer, precisely and concisely, allowing electronic musical instruments, computers and other show equipment to exchange data in real time.
	Musical mode In music, a mode is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic , define the pitch es. However, mode is usually used in the sense of scale applied only to the specific diatonic scales found below. The use of more than one mode is polymodal, such as with polymodal chromaticism.
	Musical notation Music notation or musical notation is a system of writing for music. Different systems of music notation have been developed in several cultures. In music for musical ensemble, a score shows music for all players together, while parts contain only the music played by an individual musician.
	Musical scale In music, a scale is a set of musical note that provides material for part or all of a musical work. Scales are typically ordered in pitch , with their ordering providing a measure of musical distance. Scales differ from musical mode in that scales do not have a primary or "tonic" pitch.
	Musk Duck The Musk Duck is a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia. Musk Ducks are moderately common through the Murray-Darling and Cooper's Creek basins, and in the wetter, fertile areas in the south of the continent: the south-west corner of Western Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania.
	Musk Ox The musk ox is an arctic mammal of the Bovidae family, noted for its thick coat and for the male's strong odor, hence the name. It belongs to the Caprinae subfamily, being more closely related to goats than to oxen, but is in its own genus, Ovibos. Both sexes have long curved Horns.
	Musk thistle The Musk thistle is a member of the daisy family Asteraceae. It is a biennial herb with showy red-purple flowers and sharply spiny stems and Leaf. It is native to much of Europe and Asia except for the far north. Mature plants range in height from 1-1.5 m tall and have multi-branched Plant stem.
	Muskellunge Muskellunge or muskie are large, relatively rare freshwater fish of North America. They are the largest member of the esox family, Esocidae. The name muskellunge comes from the Ojibwe language word maashkinoozhe, meaning "ugly pike," by way of French language masque allong , "long mask."
	Musket A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun, which its user generally fires from the shoulder. The date of the origin of muskets remains unknown, but they are mentioned as early as the late 15th century, and they were primarily designed for use by infantry. Muskets became obsolete by the middle of the 19th century, as rifles superseded them.
	Musketeer A Musketeer was an Early Modern type of soldier equipped with a musket. Musketeers were an important part of Early Modern armies, both in Europe and the East.
	Muskmelon Muskmelon refers to the many cultivar of Cucumis melo, and is one of the broader group of fruits grown and traded as melon. It is an accessory fruit of a type that botany call a false berry. It was first cultivated more than 4000 years ago in Iran and Africa.
	Muskogean languages Muskogean is a language family of the U.S. Southeast. The Muskogean languages are generally divided into two rough branches, Eastern and Western, though these distinctions are the subject of some debate. They are agglutinative languages.
	Muskrat The Muskrat or Musquash, the only species in genus Ondatra, is a large aquatic rodent native to North America, and introduced in parts of Europe. Adult body length is usually between 25-40 Metre#SI multiples long, with a strong, laterally compressed tail 20-25 cm long.
	Muslim A Muslim is an adherent of Islam. The feminine form of Muslim is Muslimah. Literally, the word means "one who submits to God". - - Most Muslims accept as a fellow Muslim anyone who has publicly pronounced the Shahada, which states, "There is none worthy of worship except God, and Muhammad is His Messenger." This is often translated as, "There is no God except Allah," however "Allah" is the Arabic word for God, as "Dieu" is the French word for God.
	Mussel Category:Articles to be expanded The term mussel is used for several families of bivalve mollusks inhabiting lakes, rivers, and creeks, as well as intertidal areas along coastlines worldwide. The freshwater mussels and saltwater mussels are not closely related, and are grouped in different Subclasses, despite some similarities in appearance.
	Must Must is the grape juice of freshly pressed grapes, prior to fermentation into wine. Must contains various quantities of pulp, skins, stems, and seeds, called pomace or grape solids, which typically comprise between 7–23 percent of the total weight of the must.
	Mustard Mustard may refer to: *Culinary mustard, most especially the condiment by the same name, but also the seeds and greens *Mustard oil, oil produced from mustard seeds *Mustard plants, whose seeds are used for the condiment *Mustard seeds, seeds of the mustard plant used in cooking
	Mustard seed Mustard plant seeds are small, about 1 mm in diameter. They may be colored from yellowish white to black. They are important spices in many regional cuisines. In the Indian subcontinent they are often used whole, and are quickly fried in oil until they pop to impart a flavor to the oil.
	Mustelidae Mustelidae is a family of carnivora mammals. Many kinds of mustelids are maligned by some humans. However, Mustelidae is among the most successful and diverse families in order Carnivora. Mustelids range from the Least Weasel, not much larger than a mouse, which can live in the high Arctic; to the wolverine, a 50 pound animal that can dispatch reindeer, crush bones as thick as the femur of a moose to get at the marrow, and has been known to drive bears from kills; to the ratel, w
	MUTE The MUTE Network is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend file sharing network developed with anonymity in mind. The MUTE client is open source software released under the GNU General Public License and includes support for the Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows computer operating systems.
	Mute Swan The Mute Swan is a common Eurasian member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae.
	Mutilation Mutilation or maiming is an act or physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of the body, usually without causing death. The term is usually used to describe the victims of accidents, torture, physical assault, or certain premodern forms of punishment. Acts of mutilation may include amputation, burn, flagellation or breaking wheel.
	Mutillidae Mutillidae or velvet ants, also known as cow killers, are not actually ants but a type of wasp. They get their name from their hair, which ranges from red and black to completely white, or may be silvery or golden. Their integument is very tough and roughly textured, providing protection against the stings of the wasps and bees whose nests they invade.
	Mutineer Mutineer is an album by United States singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 1995..
	Muton The Mutons are a race of Extraterrestrial life in popular culture beings in the PC game . They are purple-skinned humanoids in green armor, the same aliens that appear in the opening sequence of the game. They do not appear until the mid-game and are much tougher than Sectoids, Snakeman and Floater, often taking several shots to kill with heavy weaponry.
	Mutter This article is about the album by Rammstein. For the Philadelphian medical museum, see Mtter Museum. Mutter is the Germany Neue Deutsche Hrte band Rammstein's third musical album. It was released on 2 April 2001. It is sometimes cited by fans as Rammstein's best album.
	Mutts Mutts is a daily comic strip started by Patrick McDonnell in 1994, based around the foibles of pets and their owners. Supposedly, McDonnell's initial idea was for a strip featuring the humans who became the "Mutts'" owners, but the animals took over.
	Mutual fund A mutual fund is a form of Collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests the money in stocks, Bond, short-term money market instruments, and/or other Security. In a mutual fund, the fund manager trades the fund's underlying securities, realizing capital gains or loss, and collects the dividend or interest income.
	Mutualism In biology, mutualism is an Biological interaction between two or more species where both species derive benefit. Mutualisms can be lifelong interactions involving close physical and biochemical contact such as those between trees and mycorrhizal fungi; they can also be briefer, non-symbiotic interactions, such as those between flowering plants and pollinators.
	Muzzy Muzzy is a set of educational videos used to teach foreign languages in classrooms, named after the clock-eating monster, Muzzy, who is a main character in the set - ET that visits the kingdom of Gondoland where the story takes place. Currently, Muzzy is used to teach Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Irish and Italian, as well as English to English language learning and teaching students.
	Mwanza Mwanza is a city in northwest Tanzania and a southern port of Lake Victoria. It is the capital of Mwanza Region. According to a 2002 census, the population was 378,327, and Mwanza is the second largest city in Tanzania, after Dar es Salaam. It is located at an altitude of 1,140 metres above sea level.
	Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Union of Myanmar is the largest country in geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia. Also known as Burma or the Union of Burma by bodies and states which do not recognize the ruling military Military dictatorship, it is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the north, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, and India on the northwest, with the Andaman Sea to the south, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest.
	Mycenae Mycenae , is an archaeology in Greece, located about 90km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north. From the hill on which the palace was located one can see across the Argolid to the Saronic Gulf.
	Mycetophilidae Mycetophilidae is a family of very small fly, forming the bulk of those species known as fungus gnats. There are approximately 3000 described species in 150 genera but the true number of species is undoubtedly much higher. They are generally found in the damp habitats favoured by their host fungus and sometimes form dense swarms.
	Mycobacterium Mycobacterium is a genus of Actinobacteria, given its own family, the Mycobacteriaceae. It includes many pathogens known to cause serious diseases in mammals, including tuberculosis and leprosy. Most mycobacteria are classified into two categories, the fast-growing kind and the slow-growing kind, and most mycobacteria share some common characteristics:
	Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the bacterium that causes most cases of tuberculosis. It was first described on March 24, 1882 by Robert Koch, who subsequently received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for this discovery in 1905. The M. tuberculosis genome was sequenced hor = Cole ST; Brosch R; Parkhill J; Garnier T; Churcher C; Harris D; Gordon SV; Eiglmeier K; Gas S; Barry CEIII; Tekaia F; Badcock K; Basham D; Brown D; Chillingworth T; Connor R; Davies R; Devlin K; Feltwell T; Gentles S;
	Mycteria Mycteria is a genus of large tropical storks with representatives in the Americas, east Africa and southern and southeastern Asia. They are broad-winged soaring birds that fly with the neck outstretched and legs extended. They are resident breeders in lowland wetlands with trees in which build large stick nests.
	Myelin Myelin is an electrically insulating phospholipid layer that surrounds the axons of many neurons. It is an outgrowth of glia: Schwann cells supply the myelin for peripheral neurons while oligodendrocytes supply it to those of the central nervous system.
	Myles Standish Myles Standish, was an England-born professional soldier hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth colony. Arriving on the Mayflower, he worked on colonial defense. Later, he served as Plymouth's representative in England, and served as assistant to the governor and as the colony's treasurer.
	Myna The mynas are part of the family Sturnidae, along with the starlings and oxpeckers. This is a group of passerine Avess which occur naturally only in eastern Asia, although several species have been introduced to North America and New Zealand, and the Common Myna to south-eastern Australia, where it is regarded as a pest species.
	Myocardial infarction Acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted, causing death of heart tissue. It is the leading cause of death for both men and women all over the world. The term myocardial infarction is derived from myocardium and infarction .
	Myofibril Myofibrils are cylinder organelles, found within muscle cells. They are bundles of filaments that run from one end of the cell to the other and are attached to the cell surface membrane at each end. The filaments of myofibrils, myofilaments, consist of two types, thick and thin.
	Myoglobin Myoglobin is a Quaternary structure protein of 153 amino acids, containing a heme group in the center. With a molecular weight of 16,700 Atomic mass unit, it is the primary oxygen-carrying pigment of muscle tissues. Unlike the blood-borne hemoglobin, to which it is structurally related, this protein does not exhibit cooperative binding of oxygen.
	Myomorpha Suborder Myomorpha contains nearly a quarter of all mammal species. These are mainly mouse-like rodents, including gerbils, rats, mouse and voles. They are grouped according to the structure of the jaw and the structure of molar teeth: Both their medial and lateral masseter muscles are displaced forward, making them adept at gnawing.
	Myopia Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a refraction error of the eye in which collimated light produces image focus in front of the retina when accommodation is relaxed. Those with myopia typically can Visual perception nearby objects clearly but distant objects appear blurred.
	Myosin Myosins are a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic Biological_tissue. They are responsible for actin-based motility.
	Myosotis sylvatica Myosotis sylvatica or Wood Forget-me-not is a plant species of the genus Myosotis.
	Myrciaria Myrciaria is a genus of large shrubs and small trees native to South America, especially Brazil. Common names include Jaboticaba, Jabuticaba, Guaperu, Guapuru, Hivapuru, Sabara, and Ybapuru. The Jaboticabas are a significant commercial fruit in Brazil, where most species are native.
	Myriapoda Four groups of arthropods—the centipedes, millipedes, Pauropoda, and Symphyla—share a number of common features such as a similar body plan consisting of a head followed by an elongate trunk with many legs. The four groups also exhibit marked differences.
	Myrica Myrica is a genus of about 35-50 species of small trees and shrubs in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. The genus has a wide distribution, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, and missing only from Australasia. Some botanists split the genus into two genera on the basis of the catkin and fruit structure, restricting Myrica to a few species, and treating the others in Morella.
	Myrica gale Myrica gale is a species of flowering plant in the genus Myrica, native to northern and western Europe and parts of northern North America. It is a deciduous shrub growing to 1-2 m tall. Common names include Bog-myrtle and Sweet Gale. The leaf are spirally arranged, simple, 2-5 cm long, oblanceolate with a tapered base and broader tip, and a crinkled or finely toothed margin.
	Myrica pensylvanica The Northern Bayberry is a species of Myrica native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Ohio, and south to North Carolina. It is a deciduous shrub growing to 2-4.5 m tall. The leaf are 2.5-7 cm long and 1.5-2.7 cm broad, broadest near the leaf apex, serrated, and sticky with a spicy scent when crushed.
	Myricaceae The Myricaceae is a small family of dicotyledonous shrubs and small trees in the order Fagales. There are three genera in the family, though some botanists separate many species from Myrica into a fourth genus Morella. About 35 species are usually accepted in Myrica, one in Canacomyrica and one in Comptonia.
	Myriophyllum Myriophyllum is a genus of about 45 species of freshwater aquatic plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Its name comes from Greek language, "myri" meaning "too many to count", and "phyll", meaning "leaf". These submersed aquatic plants have whorled Leaf that are finely, pinnately divided.
	Myristic acid Myristic acid, also called tetradecanoic acid, is a common saturated fatty acid with the molecular formula CH3(CH2)12COOH found in dairy products. A myristate is a salt or ester of myristic acid. Myristic acid is also commonly added co-translationally to the penultimate, nitrogen terminus, glycine in receptor-associated kinases to confer the membrane localisation of the enzyme.
	Myristicaceae Myristicaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists; it is sometimes called the "nutmeg family", after its most famous member, Nutmeg. The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Magnoliales in the clade magnoliids.
	Myrmecia The Myrmeciinae is a subfamily of the Formicidae that was once found worldwide but is now restricted to Australia and New Caledonia. The Myrmeciinae comprise two extant genera, Myrmecia and Nothomyrmecia, as well as the fossil genus Prionomyrmex. Myrmecia, often called bull ants or Jack jumper ant, are well-known in Australia for their aggressive behavior and powerful stings.
	Myroxylon Myroxylon is a genus of two species of South American trees in the Fabaceae. The tree is well know in the western world as the source for "Balsam of Peru", or Tolu balsam. They are small trees growing to 12 m tall, with evergreen pinnate leaf 15 cm long with 5-13 leaflets.
	Myrrh Myrrh is a red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of the tree Commiphora myrrha, native to Somalia and the eastern parts of Ethiopia. The sap of a number of other Commiphora and Balsamodendron species are also known as myrrh, including that from Commiphora erythraea, Commiphora opobalsamum and Balsamodendron kua.
	Myrtaceae The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here. All species are woody, with essential oils, and flower parts in multiples of four or five.
	Myrtillocactus Myrtillocactus is a genus of cactus. The genus is found from Mexico to Guatemala. The genus is best known with Myrtillocactus geometrizans. The genus Myrtillocereus Alberto Vojtech Fric & Kreuz. has been brought into synonymy with this genus.
	Myrtle The Myrtle is a genus of one or two species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae, native to southern Europe and north Africa. They are evergreen shrubs or small trees, growing to 5 m tall. The leaf are entire, 3-5 cm long, with a pleasantly fragrant essential oil.
	Myrtle spurge The myrtle spurge, also known as creeping spurge or donkey tail, is a succulent species of spurges. The species has bluish-green fleshy leaves and sprawling stems. Bright sulphur-yellow bracts surround inconspicuous flowers during the spring. The milky sap from this plant can cause significant skin and eye irritations.
	Myrtle Warbler The Myrtle Warbler, Dendroica coronata coronata, is a small New World warbler. This passerine bird was long known to be closely related to its western counterpart, Audubon's Warbler, and at various times the two forms have been classed as separate species or grouped as Yellow-rumped Warbler, Dendroica coronata.
	Mysidacea The Mysidacea is a group of small, shrimp-like creatures including the species Neomysis americana, comprising the two related Order Mysida and Lophogastrida. They are sometimes referred to as opossum shrimps, though that name is also used for individual species.
	Mysidae In biology, the family Mysidae is one of the principal subgroups within the order Mysidacea or mysid shrimps. The members of Mysidae are sometimes called fairy shrimps. Their characteristic feature is the presence of a statocyst on the endopod of the uropod.
	Mysore Mysore is the second largest city in the Indian state of Karnataka. Mysore is the administrative seat of Mysore District, and Mysore Division. Mysore is located at 770 metre above sea level at at and is 135 kilometre from Bangalore, the state capital.