muscomorph

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noun

Any fly of the infraorder Muscomorpha.

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Meanings

nounmuscomorph (plural muscomorphs)

plural muscomorphs

  1. Any fly of the infraorder Muscomorpha.

    It thus becomes an interesting empirical question to ask whether the “advanced” axonal projection of the muscomorphs co-evolved with the trapezoidal rhabdomere pattern, or whether it developed fully only at some later stage in dipteran phylogeny.

    2012, Doekele G. Stavenga, Facets of Vision, page 193
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muscomorph. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muscomorph

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“muscomorph.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muscomorph. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “muscomorph,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muscomorph.

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