muscine
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
-
Of or pertaining to the Muscidae family of flies.
— 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, […]
-
Murine; of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a mouse.
— 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."
词源
词源 1
Musca + -ine
词源 2
Irregularly formed from translingual Mus (“genus of mice”) + -ine. See murine
0 次浏览
数据来源: Wiktionary