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M is for Mouse

Mice are very small animals that are often found in houses. They are a pest, and eat stored food. Cats, snakes and many other animals eat mice. Some people keep mice as pets. The plural of mouse is mice.

M is for Mousetrap

Mousetraps are small devices designed to catch mice. There are many different designs of traps, but all rely on using some kind of bait and a trigger mechanism that causes something to move very quickly and either catch or kill the mouse.
Larger versions of mousetraps are available for catching rats.

M is for Mousse

Mousse is a sweet dessert made with whipped cream. Mousse has a very light and fluffy consistency and can come in a variety of flavors, the most popular being chocolate.

M is for Moustache

A moustache is the hair that grows on the top lip of an adult man or animal. The hair that grows on your chin is called a beard.

M is for Mouth

Your mouth is in the middle of the bottom half of your face. You use your mouth to eat and to talk. You should always keep your mouth shut when you are eating.

M is for Move

You move when you go from one place to another. You can also move a part of yourself like your arm, or pick something else up and move it.

The people in the picture are moving on bicycles.

M is for Movie

A movie is a story told with moving pictures on a big screen or a TV.

M is for Mow

You mow grass by cutting it down close to the ground. Most people mow their lawns with a lawnmower, but other grass crops such as wheat are also mown at harvest time.

M is for Mown

Mown is the past tense of mow. For example, "He walked past a field that was freshly mown".

M is for Mozzerella

Mozzarella is an Italian cheese that is white, soft, and chewy with a mild flavor.

M is for Mud

Mud is what you get when you mix water and dirt together. Mud is sticky, squishy, squelchy and great fun to play with. If the mud is really wet you can squish around in it, and if it is only a little bit wet you can mold it into shapes like mud pies.
Even though mud is so fun, adults don't like children to play in the mud as it is very dirty, and they don't want to have to wash your clothes afterwards.

M is for Muffin

Muffins are small portions of bread or cake, baked in a distinctive shape. They are usually made of cornmeal in the United States, or wheat flour elsewhere.
English muffins are very different to the apple muffins in the photo.
Muffins are often flavoured with something else. The most common are chocolate muffins, blueberry muffins and choc chip muffins, but people have come up with almost every combination imaginable, from cinnamon to peach to banana muffins. Which varieties have you tried?

M is for Mug

A mug is a type of cup often used for drinking hot beverages, such as coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. A mug is bigger than a cup.

M is for Mulberry

Mulberries are a small deciduous tree that likes temperate to tropical climates. Most varieties have black fruit that is red when it is underripe, but some have white fruit that is green when it isn't ripe yet.
Mulberries can be eaten fresh or used to make jam or pies. Black mulberries are the only plant that the silkworm eats.

M is for Mulch

Mulch is a layer of material that you put on the ground around plants. Mulch keeps the soil from drying out, and can help keep it from getting too hot or cold.
Mulches can be made from many things, but the most common kinds of mulch are decorative gravels, pebbles, bark, wood chips and leaves. Mulches made from bark or leaves will slowly break down and make the soil better.

M is for Mule

A mule is what you get when you cross a male donkey with a female horse. All male mules and most female mules are infertile.
Mules make good working animals as they inherit many of the good traits from both donkeys and horses.

M is for Mummy

A mummy is a preserved dead body, animal or human. Mummies can be made by deliberately preserving them, or accidentally by extreme environmental conditions. The process of preserving a body is called mummification.
In ancient Egypt, it was common for dead bodies to be ritually preserved for burial. Mummified bodies typically had the internal organs removed and were then dried, by desert sand or salt, and anointed with oils and perfumes and wrapped.

M is for Mural

A mural is a large painting on a wall or ceiling. Murals may be painted directly onto the surface or painted on something else and attached to the surface.

M is for Murder

A group of crows or ravens is called a murder or an unkindness.
See also kill.

M is for Muscle

Your muscles are the part of your body that make you move.