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/ˈmʌ.skjʊl.əs/ · adjective
(now rare, relational) Made up of muscle or muscle tissue; muscular..
[T]he rest of the capacity of the clusters was […] in others fill'd with some kind of substance; in blue Flies, with a reddish musculous substance, with fibres tending from the center or bottom outwards […].
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Musculous means (now rare, relational) Made up of muscle or muscle tissue; muscular..
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[T]he rest of the capacity of the clusters was […] in others fill'd with some kind of substance; in blue Flies, with a reddish musculous substance, with fibres tending from the center or bottom outwards […].
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