Musca
the Fly, a small southern constellation between Crux and Chamaeleon.
Origin of Musca
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Its very name, too (Musca domestica), seemed a mockery, dwelling as it did in that vast solitude.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 | VariousThe Ox Fly (Musca bovina), a near relation of the house fly, is also very common.
The Insect World | Louis FiguierThe Anthomyides resemble the genus Musca very closely in their habits as well as in their organisation.
The Insect World | Louis FiguierA fly (Musca domestica) lit on the pane and the pseudoscorpion caught its legs and clung while the fly crawled about.
Just then a large fly, of the genus Musca, made its appearance, and soon became aware of the presence of the scorpion.
The Romance of Natural History, Second Series | Philip Henry Gosse
British Dictionary definitions for Musca
/ (ˈmʌskə) /
a small constellation in the S hemisphere lying between the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon
Origin of Musca
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