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mec

mec is the clipping of meconium.

Meaning of meconium

Noun

meconium (countable and uncountable, plural meconiums)

  1. A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.
    • The meconium is dark brownish-green in color. The first meconium passed is semi-solid, having been partially dried out in the large intestine.1915, John Lovett Morse, Fritz Bradley Talbot, Diseases of Nutrition and Infant Feeding, New York: MacMillan, page 78
  2. (obsolete) Opium.
    Synonyms:
    aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, Chinese tobacco, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, God's medicine

Noun capitalized: MEC

MEC (countable and uncountable, plural MECs)

  1. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of multifluidic evolutionary component.
  2. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of microbial electrolysis cell.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of multi-access edge computing.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of mobile edge computing.

Forms of mec

pluralMECs

Words formed from mec

Questions about mec

What is mec the clipping of?
Mec is the clipping of meconium.
What part of speech is mec?
Mec is a noun.
What is the plural of mec?
The plural of mec is MECs.

Words near mec in the dictionary

  1. mebutate
  2. mebutates
  3. mebutic acid
  4. mebutizide
  5. Mebyon Kernow
  6. mec
  7. Mec Art
  8. mecambridine
  9. mecamylamine
  10. mecarbinate
  11. mecarbinzid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mec (page history and authors); MEC (page history and authors); meconium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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