Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the characters of or belonging to the dipterous superfamily Muscoidea.
- noun A member of the superfamily Muscoidea.
- In botany, moss-like; resembling moss. Also
musciform . - noun One of the mosses; a moss-like plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Mosslike; resembling moss.
- noun (Bot.) A term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any
fly in thesuperfamily Muscoidea. - noun loosely Any
fly in thesection Schizophora . - noun botany, obsolete Any
moss -likeflowerless plant , with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without anyvascular system.
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Examples
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We wouldn't make a kilometer 'fore sundown through muscoid and arrowbush, not if we exhausted our blasters burnin 'them.
The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972
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With nine precious muscoid corpses, more or less ornamented with a lovely fur trimming of Saprolegnia, I shall return to London to-morrow, and shall be ready in a short time, I hope, to furnish Salmon Disease wholesale, retail, or for exportation. "
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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