Musca
Appearance
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin musca (“a fly”).
Proper noun
[edit]Musca f
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Diptera – order; Brachycera - suborder; Muscomorpha - infraorder; Schizophora - section; Calyptrata - subsection; Muscoidea - superfamily; Muscidae - family; Muscinae - subfamily; Muscini - tribe
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Musca domestica (common housefly) - type species; Musca aethiops, Musca afra, Musca albina, Musca alpesa, Musca amita, Musca asiatica, Musca autumnalis (face fly), Musca bakeri, Musca bezzii, Musca biseta, Musca cadaverum, Musca calleva, Musca callvea, Musca capensis, Musca cassara, Musca conducens, Musca confiscata, Musca convexifrons, Musca craggi, Musca crassirostris, Musca curviforceps, Musca dasyops, Musca elatior, Musca emdeni, Musca ethiopica, Musca fergusoni, Musca fletcheri, Musca formosana, Musca freedmani, Musca gabonensis, Musca heidiae, Musca hervei, Musca hugonis, Musca illingworthi, Musca inferior, Musca intermedia, Musca larvipara, Musca lasiopa, Musca lasiophthalma, Musca liberia, Musca lindneri, Musca lothari, Musca lucidula, Musca lusoria, Musca mactans, Musca malaisei, Musca mallochi, Musca meruensis, Musca munroi, Musca negriabdomina, Musca nevilli, Musca osiris, Musca patersoni, Musca pattoni, Musca pilifacies, Musca planiceps, Musca pseudocorvina, Musca ruralis, Musca santoshi, Musca seniorwhitei, Musca setulosa, Musca somalorum, Musca sorbens, Musca spangleri, Musca splendens, Musca stabulans, Musca striatacta, Musca suecica, Musca tahitiensis, Musca tempestatum, Musca tempestiva, Musca terraereginae, Musca tibetana, Musca transvaalensis, Musca ugandae, Musca ventrosa, Musca vetustissima, Musca vilis, Musca villeneuvii, Musca vitripennis, Musca wittweri, Musca xanthomelas - other species
References
[edit]- Musca (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Musca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Musca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin musca (“a fly”). Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, between 1595 and 1597. Doublet of mouche.
Proper noun
[edit]Musca
- (astronomy) An autumn constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a fly, between the constellations of Carina and Apus.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]constellation
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From muscă.
Proper noun
[edit]Musca m (genitive/dative lui Musca)
- a surname
References
[edit]- Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names][1], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică
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- Translingual terms borrowed from Latin
- Translingual terms derived from Latin
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Constellations
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian proper nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- Romanian surnames