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mott

mott noun: a copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm. Also the alternative spelling of mot.

Noun (1)

mott (plural motts)

  1. (Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.
    • They were rolling southward on the International. The timber was huddling into little dense, green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 173, column 2
    • We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 39

Noun (2)

mott (plural motts)

  1. (slang) The vulva.
    • The truck was going past Wollaton Park and Barry was still yapping about this chick's hairy mott and yet it was only background muffle to Desmond.1978, Pat McGrath, People in the Crowd, page 150

Proper noun capitalized: Mott

Mott

  1. A surname.
  2. A ghost town in Missouri.
  3. A small city, the county seat of Hettinger County, North Dakota, United States.

Noun (3) capitalized: MOTT

MOTT (countable and uncountable, plural MOTTs or MOTT)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of mycobacteria other than tuberculosis, Pathogenic bacteria of the genus Mycobacterium not causing tuberculosis.
    Synonyms:
    NTM, atypical mycobacteria

Also used as

mott is also the alternative spelling of mot.

mott meaning in Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

mott in Telugu

మొట్

mott in Malayalam

മൊട്ട്

mott in Kannada

ಮೊಟ್

Synonyms of mott

  • NTM
  • atypical mycobacteria

Forms of mott

pluralmotts
alternative formmotte
pluralMOTTs
pluralMOTT

Origin of mott

Probably ultimately from French motte; compare motte.

See mort (“woman”), etymology 5.

* As an English surname, spelling variant of Motte. * Also as an English surname, from a medieval pet form of Matilda. Also see Mould. * As a German surname, from the root of the noun Moder (“swamp, decomposing mass”).

Words formed from mott

Phrases with mott

Questions about mott

What does mott mean?
Mott means a copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.
What is mott in Telugu?
Mott in Telugu is మొట్. See Mott meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is mott?
Mott can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of mott?
The plural of mott is motts.

Words near mott in the dictionary

  1. motsser
  2. motssers
  3. motswako
  4. Motswana
  5. motswere
  6. mott
  7. Mott cell
  8. Mott cells
  9. Motta
  10. Mottama
  11. Mottas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mott (page history and authors); Mott (page history and authors); MOTT (page history and authors); mott (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mott (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mott (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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