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Definition of Muscids
1. muscid [n] - See also: muscid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscids
Literary usage of Muscids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Observatory (1885)
"This fine meteor also had a direction consistent with tho radiant-point of the
muscids. The conspicuous apparition of these several fireballs in the evening ..."
2. Astronomical Register (1884)
"The muscids appear chiefly condensed near three points as follows:— aa ...
Generally the muscids are earlier than the Taurids, the former having been ..."
3. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1899)
"... imaginai discs in their larvae as in the muscids. And we do, in fact, find in
general similar conditions, but there are several interesting differences. ..."
4. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1884)
"Besides these there are scattered radiants in Aries and Musca. The muscids are
noteworthy as being often very fine meteors ; and this seems to distinguish ..."
5. Injurious and Useful Insects: An Introduction to the Study of Economic by Louis Compton Miall (1902)
"Many of them are so similar to the blow-fly in all that relates to the structure
of the head as to be pretty easily recognised as muscids by all who know ..."
6. Notes on Some Fijian Insects by Frederick Muir (1906)
"5) is homologous to that of muscids, being the skin of the instar preceding the
pupal stage, whether that in- star be called larval, pseudo-pupal or ..."
7. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1879)
"... and on November 1st, abrupt. and abundant shower of " muscids," with an exact
radiant-point neiti, í Arietis nearly agreeing in radiant-position with ..."
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