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musciform

musciform adjective: having the appearance or form of a moss.

Adjective (1)

musciform (comparative more musciform, superlative most musciform)

  1. Having the appearance or form of a moss.
    • The surface had an irregular, musciform quality, interrupted by various ridges and valleys.
    • 8. Native Gold, of a bright gold-yellow colour, in musciform leaves, upon saxum metalliferum; from the same place (very rich.)1832, Carl Ludwig Giesecke, A Descriptive Catalogue of a New Collection of Minerals in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin: R. Graisberry, page 129

Adjective (2)

musciform (comparative more musciform, superlative most musciform)

  1. Having the form or structure of flies of the genus Musca or family Muscidae.
    • The insect had a distinctly musciform appearance, although its shiny, golden colouration was altogether more agreeable.
    • Larva.—Length, 7–9 mm. White, head black. General shape musciform, tapered anteriorly, blunt posteriorly.1918, J. R. Malloch, “A Preliminary Classification of Diptera, Exclusive of Pupipara, Based upon Larval and Pupal Characters”, in Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, volume...

Examples of musciform in a sentence

  • ...they connect with the theciferous, partly "peristomiate," and radiately divided (hence musciform) group of fungi...1871, Theodore Hilgard, “Investigations on the Development of the Yeast, or Zymotic Fungus.”, in Proceedings of the American Association...
  • Kelleria and Drapetes are humble subshrubby and caespitose, musciform plants, with sessile and imbricate leaves.1880, Henri Baillon, The Natural History of Plants, volume VI, London: L. Reeve & Co., page 118:
  • They hatch out into musciform larvae which feed upon the nutriment collected by the bees for their own larvae.1925, A. D. Imms, A General Textbook of Entomology, London: Methuen & Co., page 657:
  • In many musciform flies the first two segments are also fused...1965, Fritz Zumpt, Myiasis in Man and Animals in the Old World: A Textbook for Physicians, Veterinarians, and Zoologists, Butterworths...

Forms of musciform

comparativemore musciform
superlativemost musciform

Origin of musciform

From Latin mūscus (“moss”) + -iform.

From Musca + -form.

Questions about musciform

What does musciform mean?
Musciform means having the appearance or form of a moss.
How do you use musciform in a sentence?
...they connect with the theciferous, partly "peristomiate," and radiately divided (hence musciform) group of fungi...
What part of speech is musciform?
Musciform is an adjective.

Words near musciform in the dictionary

  1. muscicides
  2. muscicole
  3. muscicolous
  4. muscid
  5. muscids
  6. musciform
  7. muscifuge
  8. muscimol
  9. muscimole
  10. muscine
  11. muscle

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