Biology
- Mast (botany), the edible seed and fruit produced by trees or shrubs that wildlife species will consume
- Mast Arboretum, Stephen F. Austin State University, in Nacogdoches, Texas
- Mast cell, involved in the allergy response
- Mast., in botanical naming, the standard author abbreviation for Maxwell T. Masters
- Two microtubule-associated serine/threonine-protein kinase enzymes:
- MAST1
- MAST2
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