mane

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n.
  1. The long hair along the top and sides of the neck of certain mammals, such as the horse and the male lion.
  2. A long thick growth of hair on a person's head.

[Middle English, from Old English manu.]


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IN BRIEF: The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals such as the horse and the lion.

pronunciation The male lion has a mane encircling his head while the female does not.

Tutor's tip: The winner of the Ms. Maine Beauty Pageant's "main" (chief in size or importance) attribute was her shiny auburn "mane" (a horse, lion, or person's long hair).

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The region of long coarse hair at the dorsal border of the neck and terminating at the poll in the forelock. Present in the horse and other Equidae. Similar gatherings of coarse hairs are present in the giraffe, gnu, various antelope, cheetah and lion. Called also juba.

  • buzzed-off m. — broken or sheared hairs in the mane, causing it to be irregularly shortened; seen with self-trauma in response to pruritic skin disease such as Culicoides hypersensitivity.
  • m. and tail dystrophy — short, brittle hair in the mane and tail of horses; the cause is unknown.
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Mane may refer to:

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Biology

Places

People

  • Mane (clan), one of the Maratha clans; also one of the surnames of the clan people
  • Mane people or Manneh, African soldiers from the first half of the sixteenth century
Mane (surname)
Mane (given name)

Other meanings

  • Mane SA is a producer of flavors and fragrances
  • Mane (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional demon in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game
  • Lion-Mane, three characters in DC Comics
  • Mane Minister (born 1988), American Thoroughbred racehorse
  • mane is the Latin word for "morning"

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - [zool.] man, manke, stort hår, langt hår

Nederlands (Dutch)
manen, lang haar

Français (French)
n. - (lit, fig) crinière

Deutsch (German)
n. - Mähne

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χαίτη

Italiano (Italian)
criniera

Português (Portuguese)
n. - juba (f), crina (f), cabeleira comprida (f)

Русский (Russian)
конский волос

Español (Spanish)
n. - crin, crines, melena

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - man (på djur), tjockt hår (vard.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
鬃毛

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 鬃毛

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - たてがみ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شعر الرقبه أو الظهر في بعض الحيوانات‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮רעמה‬


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