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(Bot.)
Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceæ) of
trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are
examples.

||Mag"num (?), n. [Neut. sing. of L.
magnus great.] 1. A large wine
bottle.

They passed the magnum to one another
freely.

Sir W. Scott.

2. (Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the
base of the third metacarpal bone.

Mag"ot (?), n. [F.] (Zoöl.)
The Barbary ape.

Mag"ot-pie` (?), n. A
magpie. [Obs.] Shak.

Mag"pie (?), n. [OE. & Prov. E.
magot pie, maggoty pie, fr. Mag, Maggot,
equiv. to Margaret, and fr. F. Marquerite, and common
name of the magpie. Marguerite is fr. L. margarita
pearl, Gr. &?;, prob. of Eastern origin. See Pie magpie, and
cf. the analogous names Tomtit, and Jackdaw.]
(Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of the genus
Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long
graduated tail.

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