Definitions for Musca

Musca Mus·ca

Spelling: [muhs-kuh]
IPA: /ˈmʌs kə/

Musca is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in Musca (acmsu).

Definitions for Musca

noun

  1. the Fly, a small southern constellation between Crux and Chamaeleon.

Origin of Musca

New Latin, Latin: a fly

Examples for Musca

The flesh fly, Musca Cæsar, or the Blue-bottle fly, feeds upon decaying animal matter.

In some genera (Musca) there is but one, which resembles a sharp lancet.

The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledicta).

At the banquet of Julia's beauty, no guest, be sure, is considered a Musca.'

The Anthomyides resemble the genus Musca very closely in their habits as well as in their organisation.

The Ox Fly (Musca bovina), a near relation of the house fly, is also very common.

But I must make an exception in favour of the Musca Domestica, the common house-fly.

It also breeds in great numbers in horse-manure, in company with Musca domestica.

The experiments with Musca domestica were the most detailed.

Its very name, too (Musca domestica), seemed a mockery, dwelling as it did in that vast solitude.

Word Value for Musca
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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