musculous — ozdic

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1

Made up of muscle or muscle tissue; muscular.

[T]he rest of the capacity of the clusters was […] in others fill'd with some kind of substance; in blue Flies, with a reddish musculous substance, with fibres tending from the center or bottom outwards […].

2

Characterised by well-developed muscles; muscular, muscly.

3

Pertaining to muscle; involving the use of muscles; muscular.

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[T]he rest of the capacity of the clusters was […] in others fill'd with some kind of substance; in blue Flies, with a reddish musculous substance, with fibres tending from the center or bottom outwar

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