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muri

muri is the plural of murus.

muri is the alternative form of moori.

Meaning of murus

Noun

murus (plural muri)

  1. A wall, in the context of Ancient Rome. "Ubi vero moveri et adpropinquare muris viderunt, nova atque inusitata specie commoti legatos ad Caesarem de pace miserunt,.." Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum II
  2. A pattern-forming ridge on the surface of a pollen grain.

Meaning of moori

Noun

moori (uncountable)

  1. (India) Puffed rice.
    • Women had entered the rice and moori (puffed rice) business and set up shops for the first time, enabled by loans from the SHGs.2005, Neera Burra, Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive, Ranjani K Murthy, editors, Micro-Credit, Poverty and Empowerment: Linking the Triad, page 258

Noun

muri (uncountable)

  1. A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when work processes have not been simplified through standardization.

Origin of muri

Borrowed from Japanese 無理.

Phrases with muri

Questions about muri

What does muri mean?
Muri means a form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when work processes have not been simplified through standardization.
What is muri the plural of?
Muri is the plural of murus.
What part of speech is muri?
Muri is a noun.

Words near muri in the dictionary

  1. murgha
  2. Murguia
  3. Murguias
  4. murha
  5. murhas
  6. muri
  7. Muria
  8. murian
  9. muriat
  10. muriate
  11. muriate of potash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muri (page history and authors); murus (page history and authors); moori (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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