Muscine

Quick meaning: Muscine is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to the Muscidae family of flies.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the Muscidae family of flies.

More Meanings

1. Murine; of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a mouse.

Example Sentences

[…] in these respects spinthera is unlike any other muscine larva so far described.

One can see by the description of the ovum and this account of early blastoderm formation that the egg of Glossina is intermediate between the typical muscine ovum with its thick periplasm and the very thin peripheral cytoplasmic layer of Melophagus, […]

My friend explained to me that every evening two little mice came out from behind the skirting-board in his dining-room, and sang for their supper of cheese, biscuit, and other muscine delicacies, which he took care to place on the carpet for them always at the same hour.

The goal isn't simply to generate offspring, but rather to produce successful offspring, and if you're a mouse, success is best achieved by living fast, loving hard, and dying young […] If you're an elephant, success requires a very different reproductive style. And if you're a human being, you are more elephantine than muscine.

Synonyms for muscine

Depending on context, synonyms include mouselike, mousy, murine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include moschine, muscuranic, murine, musal, bemuslined, myoxine.

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