Definition of Muscids

1. Noun. (plural of muscid) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Muscids

1. muscid [n] - See also: muscid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscids

muscarinic receptor kinase
muscarinic receptors
muscarinism
muscat
muscat grape
muscatel
muscatels
muscats
muschelkalk
musci
muscicapine
muscicide
muscicolous
muscid
muscids (current term)
musciform
muscimol
muscine
muscle
muscle-bound
muscle-builder
muscle-tendon attachment
muscle-tendon junction
muscle-trimming
muscle-up
muscle-ups
muscle Marys

Literary usage of Muscids

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Observatory (1885)
"This fine meteor also had a direction consistent with tho radiant-point of the muscids. The conspicuous apparition of these several fireballs in the evening ..."

2. Astronomical Register (1884)
"The muscids appear chiefly condensed near three points as follows:— aa ... Generally the muscids are earlier than the Taurids, the former having been ..."

3. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1899)
"... imaginai discs in their larvae as in the muscids. And we do, in fact, find in general similar conditions, but there are several interesting differences. ..."

4. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1884)
"Besides these there are scattered radiants in Aries and Musca. The muscids are noteworthy as being often very fine meteors ; and this seems to distinguish ..."

5. Injurious and Useful Insects: An Introduction to the Study of Economic by Louis Compton Miall (1902)
"Many of them are so similar to the blow-fly in all that relates to the structure of the head as to be pretty easily recognised as muscids by all who know ..."

6. Notes on Some Fijian Insects by Frederick Muir (1906)
"5) is homologous to that of muscids, being the skin of the instar preceding the pupal stage, whether that in- star be called larval, pseudo-pupal or ..."

7. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1879)
"... and on November 1st, abrupt. and abundant shower of " muscids," with an exact radiant-point neiti, í Arietis nearly agreeing in radiant-position with ..."

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