n pl :  a superfamily of dipteran flies including the houseflies and many related flies (as of the families Muscidae, Gasterophilidae, Calliphoridae, and Tachinidae) that have the head freely movable and the abdomen usu. oval and bristly mus*coid adj 
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  masked  mas·si·cot  mos·qui·to 
 
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