Word Meanings - MUSCID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any fly of the genus Musca, or family Muscidæ.

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• MUSCAT
  A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• MUSCADINE
  A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine.
• MUSCID
  Any fly of the genus Musca, or family Muscidæ.
• MUSCA
  A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species. Note: Formerly, a large part of the Diptera were included under the genus Musca.
• MUSCATEL
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; a muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc.
• MUSCALLONGE
  See MUSKELLUNGE
• MUSCADEL
  See SHAK (more info) muscadellum , fr. muscatellus nutmeglike, dim. of muscatus smelling like musk, muscatum and muscata nutmeg: cf. F. muscadelle, fr. Italian. See Musk and cf. Moschatel, Muscardin,
• MUSCARIFORM
  Having the form of a brush.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• MUSCALES
  An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticæ and sphagna.
• MUSCARIN
  A solid crystalline substance, C5H13NO2, found in the toadstool , and in putrid fish. It is a typical ptomaine, and a violent poison.
• MUSCARDINE
  A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus . Also, the fungus itself.
• MUSCARDIN
  The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• SUBFAMILY
  One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
• EMUSCATION
  A freeing from moss.
• SUPERFAMILY
  A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.