The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muscoid \Mus"coid\, n. (Bot.) A term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.
Muscoid \Mus"coid\, a. [Muscus + -oid: cf. F. muscoide.] (Bot.) Mosslike; resembling moss.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context zoology English) Any fly in the superfamily ''(taxlink Muscoidea superfamily noshow=1)''. 2 (context loosely English) Any fly in the section Schizophora. Etymology 2
a. (context botany English) Resembling moss. n. (context botany obsolete English) Any moss-like flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.
Usage examples of "muscoid".
We wouldn't make a kilometer 'fore sundown through muscoid and arrowbush, not if we exhausted our blasters burnin' them.