musciform

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin muscus (moss) +‎ -iform.

Adjective[edit]

musciform (comparative more musciform, superlative most musciform)

  1. (botany) Having the appearance or form of a moss.

Etymology 2[edit]

Musca +‎ -form

Adjective[edit]

musciform (comparative more musciform, superlative most musciform)

  1. Having the form or structure of flies of the genus Musca or family Muscidae.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for musciform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)