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muscid definition

mus·cid (mus′id)

adjective

of the family (Muscidae) of two-winged dipteran insects that includes the common housefly

Etymology: < ModL Muscidae < L musca, a fly: see midge

noun

a muscid insect

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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