muscoid

English

Etymology 1

Latin musca (“fly”)

Noun

muscoid (plural muscoids)

1. (zoology) Any fly in the superfamily Muscoidea.
2. (loosely) Any fly in the section Schizophora.

Etymology 2

muscus (“moss”) + -oid

Adjective

muscoid (comparative more muscoid, superlative most muscoid)

1. (botany) Resembling moss.

Anagrams

• mucoids