The "M" is just a package, a grouping in the structure of your code.
I agree there is no "a model", it should be "a record" or "a DTO" or "a repository" (which contains the queries to a particular table), or "a service" (that contains logic that calls several repositories).
The idea of having "a model" it closely coupled with the us of ORMs (which are an anti-pattern IMHO). They provide "models" or "entities" that try to be too much (wrap over a db record, contain logic, can back a form submission -- breaking the single responsibility principle on all counts).
I feel like "clean architecture" is trying to fix this, but only makes it worse.
Otherwise you have two models, the model in your web framework and the model in your DBMS.
I would take this a step further and suggest that the term "model" is unhelpful and should be eliminated and replaced with the term "table" which is much more grounding.