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An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.

Of or pertaining to the Muscicapidæ, a family of birds that includes the true flycatchers.

Any fly of the genus Musca, or family Muscidæ.

Having the form or structure of flies of the genus Musca, or family Muscidæ.

The proboscis of hemipterous insects. See Illust. under Hemiptera.

A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

ch.), a nut with wings; a thumb nut; a finger nut. -- Fly orchis (Bot.), a plant (Ophrys muscifera), whose flowers resemble flies. -- Fly paper, poisoned or sticky paper for killing flies that feed upon or are entangled by it. -- Fly powder, an arsenical powder used to poison flies. -- Fly press, a screw press for…

A plant (Dionæa muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leave…

an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.