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A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon
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This page refers to the genus of flies; for the Musca constellation, see Musca . Musca is a genus of flies . It includes Musca domestica (the common housefly), as well as Musca autumnalis (the face fly or autumn housefly). It is part of the family Muscidae ...
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Musca \Mus"ca\, prop. n.; pl. Musc[ae] . [L., a fly.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species. Note: Formerly, a large part of the Diptera were included under the genus Musca . (Astron.) A small ...
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Canopus and Achernar high overhead, and Jack showed his attentive midshipmen the new constellations, Musca, Pavo, Chamaeleon and many more, all glowing in the warm, pellucid air.
That business with the Romulans, and right after it the interminable famine runs for gamma Muscae V, and after that, the intervention at 1210 Circini, with the Enterprise caught in the middle and everybody on the four planets in the neighborhood shooting at her: it was enough to turn your hair gray.
At best, one or more of these species will join us, and after completing the agreement between the Federation and the people of 1212 Muscae, the rest of the mission will degenerate into rubber-chicken banquets.
Personnel who had been assigned on priority to Linguistics duty-or, alternately, to looking for mehave returned to the business of scientific research into the extremely strange evolutionary patterns and history of 1212 Muscae IV.
Musci are, of course, terrestrial mosses, unless Harkness had been abbreviating Muscidae, or flies.
In Cronenberg's film, Homo sapiens meets Musca domestica only by the sheerest contingency.
The female Musca domestica, or common housefly, typically lays 600-1,000 eggs in the course of her roughly two-month lifetime, most of which grow to maturity in 10-12 days, upon which they can set about raising little maggots of their own.
The Latin medical name muscae volitantes (mus'see vol-ih-tan'teez) sounds formidable but is rather colorful, really, since it means "flying flies.