musca

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Mus=ca

CIDE DICTIONARY

musca, prop. n. [L., a fly.].

•  A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species.  [1913 Webster]

  " Formerly, a large part of the Diptera were included under the genus Musca."  [1913 Webster]
•  A small constellation situated between the Southern Cross and the Pole.  [1913 Webster]

∥Muscæ volitantes (. [L., flying flies.] (Med.) Specks or filaments apparently seen moving or gliding about in the field of vision. Their appearance is often a symptom of disease of the eye, or of disorder of the nervous system.