| subdivision | the act of subdividing, division of something previously divided |
lister
lister plow
lister plough
middlebreaker
middle buster | moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow |
subsection
subdivision | a section of a section, a part of a part, i.e., a part of something already divided |
middle ear
tympanic cavity
tympanum | the main cavity of the ear, between the eardrum and the inner ear |
| middle cerebral artery | one of two branches of the internal carotid artery, divides into three branches |
| middle meningeal artery | branch of the maxillary artery, its branches supply meninges |
middle cerebral vein
vena cerebri media | either of two cerebral veins |
| deep middle cerebral vein | accompanies the middle cerebral artery deep in the Sylvian fissure, empties into the basal vein |
| superficial middle cerebral vein | a large vein along the line of the Sylvian fissure to the cavernous sinus |
| middle temporal vein | arises near the eye, joins the superficial temporal veins to form the retromandibular vein |
| middle thyroid vein | a vein on each side that drains the lateral part of the thyroid and empties into the internal jugular vein |
middle
midriff midsection | the middle area of the human torso (usually in front), young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable |
| middle finger | the second finger, between the index finger and the ring finger |
| middle | an intermediate part or section, A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end- Aristotle |
| middle distance | the part of a scene between the foreground and the background |
| middle name | a name between your first name and your surname |
section
subdivision | a selfontained part of a larger composition (written or musical), he always turns first to the business section, the history of this work is discussed in the next section |
| middle term | the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion |
| middle C | the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff, . hertz |
| Middle English | English from about to |
| Middle High German | High German from to |
| Middle Low German | Low German from to |
| Middle Irish | Irish Gaelic from to |
Medieval Greek
Middle Greek
Byzantine Greek | the Greek language from about to AD |
middle class
bourgeoisie | the social class between the lower and upper classes |
secondary school
lyceum
lycee
Gymnasium
middle school | a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college, usually grades to |
branch
subdivision arm | a division of some larger or more complex organization, a branch of Congress, botany is a branch of biology, the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages |
center centre middle
heart
eye | an area that is approximately central within some larger region, it is in the center of town, they ran forward into the heart of the struggle, they were in the eye of the storm |
Midwest
middle west
midwestern United States | the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America) |
| subdivision | an area composed of subdivided lots |
Middle East
Mideast
Near East | the area around the eastern Mediterranean, from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran, the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam, had continuous economic and political turmoil in the th century, the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization |
centrist
middle of the roader
moderate
moderationist | a person who takes a position in the political center |
| middle-aged man | a man who is roughly between and years old |
Gnetopsida
class Gnetopsida
Gnetophytina
subdivision Gnetophytina
Gnetophyta | gymnospermous flowering plants, supposed link between conifers and angiosperms, in some systems classified as a class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta) |
Cycadopsida
class Cycadopsida
Cycadophytina
subdivision Cycadophytina
Cycadophyta
subdivision Cycadophyta | palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders, possibly not a natural group, in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta) |
Coniferopsida
class Coniferopsida
Coniferophytina
subdivision Coniferophytina
Coniferophyta | cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period, most are substantial trees, includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian) |
Pinopsida
class Pinopsida
Pinophytina
subdivision Pinophytina | most conifers: in some systems classified as a class (Pinopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Pinophytina), used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta |
Taxopsida
class Taxopsida
Taxophytina
subdivision Taxophytina | yews: in some systems classified as a class (Taxopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Taxophytina) used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta |
Ginkgopsida
class Ginkgopsida
Ginkgophytina
class Ginkgophytina
subdivision Ginkgophytina
subdivision Ginkgophyta | ginkgos: in some systems classified as a class and in others as a subdivision, used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta |
Pteropsida
subdivision Pteropsida | used in former classifications to include all ferns and flowering plants and divided into the three classes Filicinae and Gymnospermae and Angiospermae |
Zygomycota
subdivision Zygomycota
Zygomycotina
subdivision Zygomycotina | division of fungi having sexually produced zygospores |
Mastigomycota
subdivision Mastigomycota
Mastigomycotina
subdivision Mastigomycotina | fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile, in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota |
Deuteromycota
subdivision Deuteromycota
Deuteromycotina
Fungi imperfecti
subdivision Deuteromycotina | large and heterogeneous form division of fungi comprising forms for which no sexually reproductive stage is known |
Basidiomycota
subdivision Basidiomycota
Basidiomycotina
subdivision Basidiomycotina | comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium, includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi), in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi |
Ascomycota
subdivision Ascomycota
Ascomycotina
subdivision Ascomycotina | a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes, sac fungi, in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi |
conductive hearing loss
conduction deafness
middle-ear deafness | hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear |
Holocene
Holocene epoch
Recent
Recent epoch | approximately the last , years |
Pleistocene
Pleistocene epoch
Glacial epoch | from two million to thousand years ago, extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere, the time of human evolution |
Pliocene
Pliocene epoch | from million to million years ago, growth of mountains, cooling of climate, more and larger mammals |
Miocene
Miocene epoch | from million to million years ago, appearance of grazing mammals |
Oligocene
Oligocene epoch | frommillion to million years ago, appearance of sabertoothed cats |
Eocene
Eocene epoch | from million tomillion years ago, presence of modern mammals |
Paleocene
Paleocene epoch | from million to million years ago, appearance of birds and earliest mammals |
Jurassic
Jurassic period | frommillion to million years ago, dinosaurs, conifers |
| middle age | the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., betweenandyears of age) |
| Middle Paleolithic | the time period of Neanderthal man, ended about , years BC |
| epoch | a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages |
era
epoch | a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event |
ice age
glacial period
glacial epoch | any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface, the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene |
Middle Ages
Dark Ages | the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance |
| middle | time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period, the middle of the war, rain during the middle of April |
graveyard watch
middle watch
midwatch
night watch | a watch during the night (as from midnight to a.m.) |
| epoch date of reference | (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded |
| middle | put in the middle |
| middle-clas | occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy |
| lower-middle-class | occupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society |
| upper-middle-class | occupying the upper part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society |
center(a)
halfway
middle(a) midway | equally distant from the extremes |
| middle | between an earlier and a later period of time, in the middle years, in his middle thirties |
| middle | of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages, Middle English is the English language from about to , Middle Gaelic |
middle Atlantic
mid-Atlantic | of a region of the United States generally including Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and usually New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, mid-Atlantic states |
in-between
mediate
middle | being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series, adolescence is an awkward in-between age, in a mediate position, the middle point on a line |
| middle-of-the-road | not extreme, especially in political views |
| middle-aged | being roughly between and years old |
centrist
middle-of-the-road | supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative |
epochal
epoch-making | highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era, epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill, an epoch-making discovery |
| middle-level | intermediate in rank or position, middle-level management |
| Middle Eastern | of or relating to or located in the Middle East |
| Jurassic | of or relating to or denoting the second period of the Mesozoic era |
| pre-Jurassic | of or relating to or denoting the time before the Jurassic period |