# mons

Pronunciation: US say "MAHNZ" /mɑnz/; UK say "MONZ" /mɒnz/

## Noun

1. Short for mons pubis: the rounded mound of fatty tissue over the pubic bone. — Ellipsis of mons pubis.
   - Simple: Short for mons pubis: the soft, rounded area over the pubic bone, below the belly.
   - _The mons becomes more prominent after puberty as fatty tissue builds up._
   - _Doctors examine the mons as part of a routine pelvic exam._
2. A mountain or volcano on a planet or moon other than Earth.
   - Simple: A mountain or volcano on another world, such as Mars or the Moon.
   - _Olympus Mons, the largest mons on Mars, rises about two and a half times higher than Everest._
   - _Geologists study how a martian mons forms without plate tectonics._

## Noun

3. One of the fleshy pads at the base of the fingers on the palm; a mount. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A soft, raised pad of flesh at the base of a finger on the palm.

## Origin

Mount is a doublet of this word, which English borrowed from the Latin mōns, meaning "mountain."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/mons (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).