molan.¹

Brit.

/ˈməʊlə/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊlə/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mola.

Etymology: < classical Latin mola mill, millstone, salt-cake, false conception (see meal n.¹; in sense ‘false conception’ after the cognate ancient Greek μύλη hand-mill, lower millstone, false conception). In sense 2 after post-classical Latin mola (1554 or earlier), Middle French mole (see mole n.⁶), and in later use after scientific Latin Mola, genus name. Compare molebat n.

1. Medicine. = mole n.⁴ Also figurative and in extended use. Now rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > false conception or pregnancy

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maw mother?c1475

mooncalf1565

whetstone1580

cushion1600

false conception1601

pseudocyesis1859

pseudopregnancy1860

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 216^v Balsamum..bryngeþ a deede childe out of þe wombe and þe mola out of þe moodir and out of þe wombe.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke ii. lviii. 153 Mola..is..a swellinge that is hardened, sometime in the mouth and entrie of the matrice.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 163 A false conception called Mola, i. a moone calfe.

1636 R. James Iter Lancastrense (1845) 9 I hope no sisters did of molaes dye.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 93 Many Mola's and false conceptions there are of Mandrakes.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cccxlix, in Poems (1878) IV. 88 The Age (it seemes) after soe great a Birth In Treason, as his owne, broke in the Cell; Slipt her Rebellions, like rude Molaes forth.

1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants i. iv. App. 33 These Thorns [have their origin], from the outer, and less fecund Part; and so produceth no Leaves, but is, as it were, the Mola of a Bud.

1753 N. Torriano Compendium Obstetricii 39 Mola's and false Conceptions.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 196 The human mola sometimes attains considerable developement without either brain or spinal cord.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 41/1 Some such challenge..would have helped Professor Nohrnberg to deliver himself of a workable book instead of (too often) inchoate materials toward a book, a mere mola.

2. Any of three fishes of the family Molidae, esp. (also reduplicated, representing the taxonomic name) the ocean sunfish, Mola mola. Cf. mole n.⁶ 1, molebat n.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Molidae (ocean sun-fish) > member of genus Mola

molebat1598

mole1601

sunfisha1630

moonfish1646

mola1678

sun perch1804

ocean sunfish1900

short diodon-

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Mola, a Fish found in the Adriatick Sea.

1976 Quoddy Tides (Eastport, Maine) 13 Aug. 33/3 A Mola-Mola sunfish found its way into a weir.

1985 A. Wheeler World Encycl. Fishes 244/3 Masturus lanceolatus Sunfish, Trunkfish, Sharptail mola... Masturus is recognized by its general resemblnce to Mola mola.

1990 National Geographic Feb. 23/1 The flat sunfish called mola, for instance, need water warmer than most other bay creatures.

1994 Cape Cod Outdoors Summer 9/2 Occasionally there's the white-beaked dolphin, common dolphin, and mola mola (or ocean sunfish).

1997 National Geographic Traveler July 30/3 My favorite is the ocean sunfish or mola mola, a preposterous-looking creature, basically a four-foot-long swimming head.

3. Entomology. A ridged or roughened area near the base of an insect's mandible, used for grinding.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > mouth-parts or trophi > mandible(s) > basal projection or surface of

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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 437 These mandibles..are furnished with..miniature mill-stones to grind it [sc. food]. The part here alluded to I call the Mola.

1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) II. 836 [In Coleoptera] the proximal inner edge of the mandible often has a mola, a thickened, sometimes crenulate or plicate area which serves for grinding.

1996 Jrnl. Zool. Systematics & Evol. Res. 34 121 Larvae of these families are characterized by the absence of the mandibular mola and a robust apical part of the mandible.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

molan.²

Brit.

/ˈməʊlə/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊlə/

Origin: A borrowing from Kuna. Etymon: Kuna mola.

Etymology: < Kuna mola, lit. ‘clothing, blouse’.

A square of brightly coloured appliquéd cloth worn as a blouse by Kuna Indian women of the San Blas Islands, Panama.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > bodice > blouse > fabric worn as

mola1941

1941 National Geographic Mag. Feb. 217 With the skirt is worn a short-sleeved waist called a mola. The mola is of true Indian manufacture.

1964 I. Salem tr. M. Larsen & H. Larsen Forests Panama viii. 99 Some of these molas still depict the rather naïve, stylized animals portrayed on pre-Columbian pottery.

1966 J. M. Kelly Cuna i. 26 The ‘Mola’ tops had been introduced by the Spaniards who didn't like the women walking around with their breasts showing.

1992 Native Peoples Spring 22/2 (caption) Molas traditionally have been incorporated into Kuna women's blouses, but they also are admired and collected as art worldwide.

1999 Cultural Survival Q. Summer 33 Kuna men and women, dressed traditionally in their bright red headdresses and intricately embroidered mola blouses, mill around, while a handful of tourists wait in line looking bewildered.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mola
释义	molan.¹ Brit. /ˈməʊlə/, U.S. /ˈmoʊlə/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mola. Etymology: < classical Latin mola mill, millstone, salt-cake, false conception (see meal n.¹; in sense ‘false conception’ after the cognate ancient Greek μύλη hand-mill, lower millstone, false conception). In sense 2 after post-classical Latin mola (1554 or earlier), Middle French mole (see mole n.⁶), and in later use after scientific Latin Mola, genus name. Compare molebat n. 1. Medicine. = mole n.⁴ Also figurative and in extended use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > false conception or pregnancy molaa1398 mole?c1425 maw mother?c1475 mooncalf1565 whetstone1580 cushion1600 false conception1601 pseudocyesis1859 pseudopregnancy1860 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 216^v Balsamum..bryngeþ a deede childe out of þe wombe and þe mola out of þe moodir and out of þe wombe. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke ii. lviii. 153 Mola..is..a swellinge that is hardened, sometime in the mouth and entrie of the matrice. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 163 A false conception called Mola, i. a moone calfe. 1636 R. James Iter Lancastrense (1845) 9 I hope no sisters did of molaes dye. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 93 Many Mola's and false conceptions there are of Mandrakes. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cccxlix, in Poems (1878) IV. 88 The Age (it seemes) after soe great a Birth In Treason, as his owne, broke in the Cell; Slipt her Rebellions, like rude Molaes forth. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants i. iv. App. 33 These Thorns [have their origin], from the outer, and less fecund Part; and so produceth no Leaves, but is, as it were, the Mola of a Bud. 1753 N. Torriano Compendium Obstetricii 39 Mola's and false Conceptions. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 196 The human mola sometimes attains considerable developement without either brain or spinal cord. 1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 41/1 Some such challenge..would have helped Professor Nohrnberg to deliver himself of a workable book instead of (too often) inchoate materials toward a book, a mere mola. 2. Any of three fishes of the family Molidae, esp. (also reduplicated, representing the taxonomic name) the ocean sunfish, Mola mola. Cf. mole n.⁶ 1, molebat n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Molidae (ocean sun-fish) > member of genus Mola molebat1598 mole1601 sunfisha1630 moonfish1646 mola1678 sun perch1804 ocean sunfish1900 short diodon- 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Mola, a Fish found in the Adriatick Sea. 1976 Quoddy Tides (Eastport, Maine) 13 Aug. 33/3 A Mola-Mola sunfish found its way into a weir. 1985 A. Wheeler World Encycl. Fishes 244/3 Masturus lanceolatus Sunfish, Trunkfish, Sharptail mola... Masturus is recognized by its general resemblnce to Mola mola. 1990 National Geographic Feb. 23/1 The flat sunfish called mola, for instance, need water warmer than most other bay creatures. 1994 Cape Cod Outdoors Summer 9/2 Occasionally there's the white-beaked dolphin, common dolphin, and mola mola (or ocean sunfish). 1997 National Geographic Traveler July 30/3 My favorite is the ocean sunfish or mola mola, a preposterous-looking creature, basically a four-foot-long swimming head. 3. Entomology. A ridged or roughened area near the base of an insect's mandible, used for grinding. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > mouth-parts or trophi > mandible(s) > basal projection or surface of mola1826 molar1892 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 437 These mandibles..are furnished with..miniature mill-stones to grind it [sc. food]. The part here alluded to I call the Mola. 1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) II. 836 [In Coleoptera] the proximal inner edge of the mandible often has a mola, a thickened, sometimes crenulate or plicate area which serves for grinding. 1996 Jrnl. Zool. Systematics & Evol. Res. 34 121 Larvae of these families are characterized by the absence of the mandibular mola and a robust apical part of the mandible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). molan.² Brit. /ˈməʊlə/, U.S. /ˈmoʊlə/ Origin: A borrowing from Kuna. Etymon: Kuna mola. Etymology: < Kuna mola, lit. ‘clothing, blouse’. A square of brightly coloured appliquéd cloth worn as a blouse by Kuna Indian women of the San Blas Islands, Panama. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > bodice > blouse > fabric worn as mola1941 1941 National Geographic Mag. Feb. 217 With the skirt is worn a short-sleeved waist called a mola. The mola is of true Indian manufacture. 1964 I. Salem tr. M. Larsen & H. Larsen Forests Panama viii. 99 Some of these molas still depict the rather naïve, stylized animals portrayed on pre-Columbian pottery. 1966 J. M. Kelly Cuna i. 26 The ‘Mola’ tops had been introduced by the Spaniards who didn't like the women walking around with their breasts showing. 1992 Native Peoples Spring 22/2 (caption) Molas traditionally have been incorporated into Kuna women's blouses, but they also are admired and collected as art worldwide. 1999 Cultural Survival Q. Summer 33 Kuna men and women, dressed traditionally in their bright red headdresses and intricately embroidered mola blouses, mill around, while a handful of tourists wait in line looking bewildered. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1398n.²1941
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