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2. A burial place; a place for the
dead.

3. A place for the reception of the dead
before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.

Mor"tu*a*ry (?), a. [L.
mortuarius, fr. mortuus dead: cf. F. mortuaire.
See Mortal.] Of or pertaining to the dead; as,
mortuary monuments.

Mortuary urn, an urn for holding the ashes
of the dead.

||Mor"u*la (?), n.; pl.
Morulæ (#). [NL., dim. of L. morum a
mulberry.] (Biol.) The sphere or globular mass of cells
(blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the
first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass,
segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See
Segmentation.

Mor`u*la"tion (?), n. (Biol.)
The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which
a morula is formed.

||Mo"rus (?), n. [L., mulberry tree.
See Mulberry.] (Bot.) A genus of trees, some
species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry.


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