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单词 muscal
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muscaladj.n.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Muscalis.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Muscalis (Lindley, as Muscales , plural: see quot. 1846 at sense A.) < classical Latin muscus moss n.1 + -ālis -al suffix1. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (mɒ·skăl) /ˈmʌskəl/.
Botany. Obsolete. rare.
A. adj.
In J. Lindley's terminology: denoting a group of plants comprising the mosses, liverworts, and horsetails. Only in muscal alliance.
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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > moss group
muscal alliance1846
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 54 Muscales.—The Muscal Alliance.
B. n.
A plant of this group.
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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > a kind of
moss?a1425
moss1562
muscal1846
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 56 Natural Orders of Muscals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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