plural of motte

(US, chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.

Alternative spelling of mot (“woman”)

A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch.

Alternative form of mott

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

plural of mott

plural of motte and bailey

The predecessor of the castle, having a raised earth mound (the motte) topped with a tower (or donjon), and a wooden ring fortification surrounding a courtyard (the bailey).

(microbiology) An atypical plasma cell that has spherical inclusions filled with immunoglobulin (small Russell bodies) packed in its cytoplasm.