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mare noun3. . M19.
[Latin = sea.]
Astronomy. Any of the extensive areas of flat terrain ('seas') on the surface of the moon, which appear dark and were once thought to be seas; a similar area on Mars etc.
? From 17 in mod. Latin proper names, as Mare Imbrium, Mare Tranquillitatis, etc.