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noun a small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon
noun type genus of the Muscidae: houseflies
originBorrowed from Latin musca (“a fly”). Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, between 1595 and 1597. Doublet of mouche.
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