Musca

[ muhs-kuh ]

/ ˈmʌs kə /

the Fly, a small southern constellation between Crux and Chamaeleon.

Origin of Musca

< New Latin, Latin: a fly

A fly (Musca domestica) lit on the pane and the pseudoscorpion caught its legs and clung while the fly crawled about.

Journal of Entomology and Zoology: Volume 6, Number 4, December 1914 |Various
At the banquet of Julia's beauty, no guest, be sure, is considered a musca.'

The Last Days of Pompeii |Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
We have already seen that Musca domestica breeds in almost any fermenting organic material.

Handbook of Medical Entomology |William Albert Riley
But I must make an exception in favour of the Musca Domestica, the common house-fly.

Savage Island |Basil C. Thomson

The experiments with Musca domestica were the most detailed.

Handbook of Medical Entomology |William Albert Riley

Musca

/ (ˈmʌskə) /

a small constellation in the S hemisphere lying between the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon

Latin: a fly

Musca

[ mŭs′kə ]

A genus of flies of the family Muscidae that includes M. domestica, the common housefly, a species involved in the transfer of numerous pathogens.