Muscine vs Fuscine - What's the difference?
muscine | fuscine |
Of or pertaining to the Muscidae family of flies.
* 1951 , Harold Raymond Hagan, Embryology of the viviparous insects , page :
* 1985 , Peter Skidmore, The Biology of the Muscidae of the World , page 205:
Murine; of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a mouse.
* 1870 , Henry Reeks, "Notes on the Zoology of Newfoundland" in The Zoologist (2nd series, vol. 5, March 1870), page 2042:
*:If true, there is something peculiarly interesting in these periodical visitations—or, I should, perhaps, rather say migrations—of mice, for I was informed that these muscine armies come from the interior, or from that direction, towards the sea, which they boldly enter, and are consequently drowned and their bodies cast on the shore "by thousands."
* 1878 , Henry Lee, "" in Popular Science Monthly (vol. 14, November 1878), page 102:
*:My friend explained to me that every evening two little mice came out from behind the skirting-board in his dining-room, and sang for their supper of cheese, biscuit, and other muscine delicacies, which he took care to place on the carpet for them always at the same hour.
* 2009 , David P. Barash & Judith Eve Lipton, How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories , page 185:
As an adjective muscine
is of or pertaining to the muscidae family of flies or muscine can be murine; of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a mouse.As a noun fuscine is
(chemistry) a dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.muscine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) Musca .Adjective
(en adjective)- One can see by the description of the ovum and this account of early blastoderm formation that the egg of Glossina'' is intermediate between the typical muscine ovum with its thick periplasm and the very thin peripheral cytoplasmic layer of ''Melophagus ,
- in these respects spinthera is unlike any other muscine larva so far described.
Etymology 2
Irregularly formed from (etyl) . See murineAdjective
(en adjective)- The goal isn't simply to generate offspring, but rather to produce successful offspring, and if you're a mouse, success is best achieved by living fast, loving hard, and dying young If you're an elephant, success requires a very different reproductive style. And if you're a human being, you are more elephantine than muscine .