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Mayo

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Ma·yo  (m), William James 1861-1939.
American surgeon who with his brother Charles Horace Mayo (1865-1939) founded the Mayo Clinic, a renowned private medical center in Rochester, Minnesota.
may·o  (m)
n. Informal
Mayonnaise.
Mayo [ˈmeɪəʊ]
n
(Placename) a county of NW Republic of Ireland, in NW Connacht province, on the Atlantic: has many offshore islands and several large lakes. County town: Castlebar. Pop.: 111 524 (1996). Area: 5397 sq. km (2084 sq. miles)
Mayo2
n
(Biographies / Mayo, X) a family of US medical practitioners. They pioneered group practice and established (1903) the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Foremost among them were William Worrall Mayo (1819-1911), his sons
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Noun1.Mayomayo - egg yolks and oil and vinegar        
mayonnaise
dressing, salad dressing - savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type
green mayonnaise, sauce verte - mayonnaise with tarragon or dill and chopped watercress and spinach or cucumber
Translations
mayo [ˈmeɪəʊ] n abbr (=mayonnaise) → mayo f >
mayo
n (US inf) → Mayonnaise f, → Majonäse f, → Mayo f (inf)


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Under the names of Dhiouleba, Mayo, Egghirreou, Quorra, and other titles besides, it traverses an immense extent of country, and almost competes in length with the Nile.
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Men like Al Mayo and Jack McQuestion antedated him; but they had entered the land by crossing the Rockies from the Hudson Bay country to the east.
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They sledded seventy miles up the Yukon, swung to the left into the Stewart River, passed the Mayo and the McQuestion, and held on until the Stewart itself became a streamlet, threading the upstanding peaks which marked the backbone of the continent.
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