Musca

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

Translingual

Musca domestica

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin musca (“a fly”).

Proper noun

Musca f

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

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Holometabola - superorder; Diptera - order; Brachycera - suborder; Muscomorpha - infraorder; Schizophora - section; Calyptrata - subsection; Muscoidea - superfamily; Muscidae - family; Muscinae - subfamily; Muscini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Musca domestica (common housefly) - type species; Musca aethiops, Musca afra, Musca albina, Musca alpesa, Musca amita, Musca asiatica, Musca autumnalis (face fly), Musca bakeri, Musca bezzii, Musca biseta, Musca cadaverum, Musca calleva, Musca callvea, Musca capensis, Musca cassara, Musca conducens, Musca confiscata, Musca convexifrons, Musca craggi, Musca crassirostris, Musca curviforceps, Musca dasyops, Musca elatior, Musca emdeni, Musca ethiopica, Musca fergusoni, Musca fletcheri, Musca formosana, Musca freedmani, Musca gabonensis, Musca heidiae, Musca hervei, Musca hugonis, Musca illingworthi, Musca inferior, Musca intermedia, Musca larvipara, Musca lasiopa, Musca lasiophthalma, Musca liberia, Musca lindneri, Musca lothari, Musca lucidula, Musca lusoria, Musca mactans, Musca malaisei, Musca mallochi, Musca meruensis, Musca munroi, Musca negriabdomina, Musca nevilli, Musca osiris, Musca patersoni, Musca pattoni, Musca pilifacies, Musca planiceps, Musca pseudocorvina, Musca ruralis, Musca santoshi, Musca seniorwhitei, Musca setulosa, Musca somalorum, Musca sorbens, Musca spangleri, Musca splendens, Musca stabulans, Musca striatacta, Musca suecica, Musca tahitiensis, Musca tempestatum, Musca tempestiva, Musca terraereginae, Musca tibetana, Musca transvaalensis, Musca ugandae, Musca ventrosa, Musca vetustissima, Musca vilis, Musca villeneuvii, Musca vitripennis, Musca wittweri, Musca xanthomelas - other species

References

• Musca (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Musca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Musca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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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.

Derived terms

• Muscae

Translations

constellation

• Finnish: Kärpänen (fi)
• French: Mouche (fr) f
• Galician: Mosca (gl)
• German: Fliege (de) f
• Japanese: 蝿座 (ja) (はえざ, Haeza)

• Malay: Lalat
• Polish: Mucha (pl)
• Russian: Му́ха (ru) f (Múxa)
• Spanish: Musca

Anagrams

• CUSMA, Camus, USMCA, camus, musac, sumac