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muscomorph

muscomorph noun: any fly of the infraorder Muscomorpha.

Noun

muscomorph (plural muscomorphs)

  1. Any fly of the infraorder Muscomorpha.
    • It thus becomes an interesting empirical question to ask whether the “advanced” axonal projection of the muscomorphs co-evolved with the trapezoidal rhabdomere pattern, or whether it developed fully only at some later stage in dipteran phylogeny.2012, Doekele G. Stavenga, Facets of Vision, page 193

Forms of muscomorph

pluralmuscomorphs

Questions about muscomorph

What does muscomorph mean?
Muscomorph means any fly of the infraorder Muscomorpha.
What part of speech is muscomorph?
Muscomorph is a noun.
What is the plural of muscomorph?
The plural of muscomorph is muscomorphs.

Words near muscomorph in the dictionary

  1. muscological
  2. muscologist
  3. muscologists
  4. muscology
  5. muscolotendinous
  6. muscomorph
  7. muscomorphs
  8. muscone
  9. muscones
  10. Muscongus Bay sloop
  11. Muscos

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