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Word Unit: muse + (Latin: musum, "muzzle, snout"; Old French muser "to meditate, to ponder", perhaps literally "to go around with one's nose in the air" from muse "muzzle, snout").

Word Unit: muses (Greek: goddesses of fine arts; including, Calliope, Clio, Erato, Urania, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Thalia, Melpomene, and Terpsichore).

Word Unit: musico-, music- (Greek: mousike [techne] > Latin: musica, music; originally an art of the Muses).

Word Unit: muso-, mus- (Greek: mouse, mice).

Word Unit: mut- (change) (Latin: change, changeable).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, varied, changing": ali-; allo-; alter-; allelo-; hetero-; poikilo-; reciproc-; vari-.

Word Unit: mut- (silent) (Greek > Latin: unable to speak, inarticulate, dumb; uttering no sound, silent, still, quiet).

Word Unit: myco- (Greek: mucus).

Word Unit: myco-, myc-, myceto-, mycet-, -myces, -mycetous, -mycetic, -mycetous, -mycosis + (Greek: fungus, fungi; mushroom).

A cross reference of a word group that is related, directly or indirectly, to: "fungus, fungi": fungi-.

Word Unit: myelin-, myelino- + (Greek: lipoid substance (containing or resembling fat) sheathing certain nerve fibers; lipoid substance found in body tissue).

Word Unit: myelo-, myel- (Greek: bone marrow; the spinal cord and medulla oblongata; the myelin sheath of nerve fibers).

Word Unit: myi- (Greek: a fly).

Word Unit: myo-, my-, myos- (Greek: muscle; said to be from a Greek word meaning "mouse").

Word Unit: myria-, myrio-, myri- (Greek: ten thousand; very numerous, countless).

Word Unit: myring-, myringo- + (Greek > Latin: membrane, tympanic [drum] membranes in the ears).

Related "ear" word families: auri-; oto-; tympano- (drum, stretched membrane).

Word Unit: myrmeco-, myrmec-, myrme-, myrmic-, myrmi- (Greek: ant, ants).

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, or indirectly, with: "insects, bugs, worms; invertebrates": aphidi-; api-; ascari-; culci-; Dung Beetle Survival; Dung Beetles Important; Eating Worms; entomo-; formic-; Guinea worms; helmintho-; insecto-; Insects: Importance; isopter-; larvi-; lepidopter-; meliss-; mosquito; Mosquito, other Languages; Mosquitoes, Pt. 1; Mosquitoes, Pt. 2; scarab; scoleco-; sphec-; taeni-; termit-; vermo-.

Word Unit: myrmidon- (Greek [Murmidones] > Latin: [Myrmidones, Myrmidons]).

Word Unit: myro-, myr- (Greek: unguent, perfume).

Word Unit: myso-, mys- + (Greek: uncleanness of body or mind; filth; defilement; anything disgusting).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; lut-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-; terr-.

Word Unit: myster-, myst- (Greek > Latin: secret, occult [probable literal meaning is "one whose eyes are closed"]).

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "secret, hidden, confidential, concealed": ceal-; clandesti-; crypto-; occult-; orgy-; stego-, stegano-.

Word Unit: mythico-, mytho-, myth-, -mythical, -mythical, -mythically, -mythic + (Greek: talk, speech, word; story; legend).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; clam-; dic-; English Words: Origins and Histories; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; tongue; voc-.

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