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muscoid

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English

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Etymology 1

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Latin musca (“fly”)

Noun

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muscoid (plural muscoids)

  1. (zoology) Any fly in the superfamily Muscoidea.
  2. (loosely) Any fly in the section Schizophora.

Etymology 2

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muscus (“moss”) + -oid

Adjective

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muscoid (comparative more muscoid, superlative most muscoid)

  1. (botany) Resembling moss.

Anagrams

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