MURAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mural mean? 

• MURAL (noun)
  The noun MURAL has 1 sense:

1. a painting that is applied to a wall surface

  Familiarity information: MURAL used as a noun is very rare.

• MURAL (adjective)
  The adjective MURAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to walls

  Familiarity information: MURAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MURAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A painting that is applied to a wall surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mural; wall painting

Hypernyms ("mural" is a kind of...):

painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mural"):

fresco (a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster)

Derivation:

mural (of or relating to walls)

muralist (a painter of murals)

• MURAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to walls

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

mural painting

Pertainym:

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

Derivation:

mural (a painting that is applied to a wall surface)

 Context examples 

The prognosis of mucinous cystic tumors with benign mural nodules is the same as the corresponding types of mucinous cystic tumors without the mural nodules.

(Ovarian Mucinous Cystic Tumor with Mural Nodules, NCI Thesaurus)

A histologically benign tumor, usually cystic with a vascular mural nodule, that is most often found in the cerebellum though it has been reported at other sites within the neuraxis.

(Cerebellar hemangioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The mural nodules may be benign (sarcoma-like) or malignant.

(Ovarian Mucinous Cystic Tumor with Mural Nodules, NCI Thesaurus)

Mucinous cystic tumors with malignant mural nodules may follow a malignant clinical course.

(Ovarian Mucinous Cystic Tumor with Mural Nodules, NCI Thesaurus)

The clinical course depends on the histology of the mural nodules.

(Ovarian Mucinous Cystic Tumor with Mural Nodules, NCI Thesaurus)

The malignant mural nodules histologically are anaplastic carcinomas, carcinosarcomas, or sarcomas.

(Ovarian Mucinous Cystic Tumor with Mural Nodules, NCI Thesaurus)

A mucinous cystic tumor of the ovary characterized by the presence of one or more well circumscribed solid nodules in the wall of the cysts (mural nodules) that protrude into the lumen.

(Ovarian Mucinous Cystic Tumor with Mural Nodules, NCI Thesaurus)