Musca

See also: MUSCA, musca, muscã, muscă, and mușca

Translingual

Musca domestica

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin musca (a fly).

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Musca f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Muscidae – some flies, including the housefly.

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English

Constellation map featuring Musca, centre

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin musca (a fly). Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, between 1595 and 1597.

Proper noun

Musca

  1. (astronomy) An autumn constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a fly, between the constellations of Carina and Apus.

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