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MARE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Female equine animal

Synonyms:

female horse; mare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mare" is a kind of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mare"):

broodmare; stud mare (a female horse used for breeding)

Holonyms ("mare" is a member of...):

Equidae; family Equidae (horses; asses; zebras; extinct animals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon

Synonyms:

mare; maria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("mare" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

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 Context examples: 

Billions of years ago, Earth's Moon formed vast basins called "mare" (pronounced MAR-ay).

(Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon, NASA)

A naturally occurring steroid with estrogenic activity obtained from the urine of pregnant mares.

(Equilin, NCI Thesaurus)

High reeds of a peculiar type grew thickly before us, which were pronounced to be equisetacea, or mare's-tails, with tree-ferns scattered amongst them, all of them swaying in a brisk wind.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have three unanswerable reasons for disliking Colonel Brandon; he threatened me with rain when I wanted it to be fine; he has found fault with the hanging of my curricle, and I cannot persuade him to buy my brown mare.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The study shows that the planet's surface may resemble those of Earth's Moon or Mercury: The planet likely has little to no atmosphere and could be covered in the same cooled volcanic material found in the dark areas of the Moon's surface, called mare.

(A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface, NASA)

Maria's guilt had induced Julia's folly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Maria considered solemnly for a space.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Because of this combination of textures, the researchers refer to these unusual areas as "irregular mare patches."

(Evidence for Young Lunar Volcanism, NASA)

He had most certainly taken his seat there at Friar’s Oak, and from there on we had come without a break as fast as the mares could travel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have seen a white mare of our family thread a needle (which I lent her on purpose) with that joint.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)