Mythologic
(Myth`o*log"ic Myth`o*log"ic*al) a. [L. mythologicus: cf. F. mytholigique.] Of or pertaining
to mythology or to myths; mythical; fabulous. — Myth`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Mythologist
(My*thol"o*gist) n. [Cf. F. mythologiste.] One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or
myths.
Mythologize
(My*thol"o*gize) v. i. [Cf. F. mythologiser.]
1. To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.
2. To construct and propagate myths.
Mythologizer
(My*thol"o*gi`zer) n. One who, or that which, mythologizes.
Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer.
Lowell. Mythologue
(Myth"o*logue) n. [See Mythology.] A fabulous narrative; a myth. [R.]
May we not . . . consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of
human evil?
Geddes. Mythology
(My*thol"o*gy) n.; pl. Mythologies [F. mythologie, L. mythologia, Gr. myqologi`a; my^qos,
fable, myth + lo`gos speech, discourse.]
1. The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
2. A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology
of the Greeks.
Mythoplasm
(Myth"o*plasm) n. [Gr. my^qos myth + pla`ssein to form.] A narration of mere fable.
Mythopœic
(Myth`o*pœ"ic) a. [Gr. myqopoio`s making myths; my^qos myth + poiei^n to make.] Making
or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives.
The mythopœic fertility of the Greeks.
Grote. Mythopoetic
(Myth`o*po*et"ic) a. [Gr. my^qos myth + able to make, producing, fr. poiei^n to make.]
Making or producing myths or mythical tales.
Mytiloid
(Myt"i*loid) a. [Mytilus + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Mytilus, or family Mytilidæ.
Mytilotoxine
(Myt`i*lo*tox"ine) n. [Mytilus + toxic.] (Physiol. Chem.) A poisonous base (leucomaine)
found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions,
including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.
Mytilus
(||Myt"i*lus) n. [L., a sea mussel, Gr. .] (Zoöl.) A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the
common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.
Myxa
(||Myx"a) n. [L., a lamp nozzle, Gr. .] (Zoöl.) The distal end of the mandibles of a bird.
Myxine
(Myx"ine) n. (Zoöl.) A genus of marsipobranchs, including the hagfish. See Hag, 4.
Myxinoid
(Myx"i*noid) a. (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Myxine. — n. A hagfish.
Myxocystodea
(||Myx`o*cys*to"de*a) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. mucus + a bladder.] (Zoöl.) A division of Infusoria
including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca.
