muscid

[muhs-id]

mus·cid

[muhs-id]
adjective
1.
belonging or pertaining to the Muscidae, the family of dipterous insects that includes the common housefly.
noun
2.
any muscid fly.

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Muscid is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

Origin:
1890–95; < Neo-Latin Muscidae name of the family. See Musca, -id2
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muscid (ˈmʌsɪd)
 
n
1.  any fly of the dipterous family Muscidae, including the housefly and tsetse fly
 
adj
2.  of, relating to, or belonging to the Muscidae
 
[C19: via New Latin from Latin musca fly]

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