muscifuge

词形变化

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something which repels or kills flies, typically a plant; a fly repellent. Also spelled "muscafuge" (1844) by Henry Stephens, who claimed to have coined it.

    罕用

    Pharmacists who are plagued with flies in hot weather will be glad to learn that, according to the Moniteur des Produits Chimiques, the Ricinus sanguinis, a common ornamental foliage plant and own brother to the Ricinus communis, is an effectual muscifuge.

词源

From Latin musca (“fly”) + -fuge (“repellent”), compare medieval Latin muscifugium, a fly fan.

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