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Meaning of musculous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
ˈmʌ.skjʊl.əs

Definitions

  1. Made up of muscle or muscle tissue; muscular.
    archaic, relational
  2. Characterised by well-developed muscles; muscular, muscly.
    archaic
  3. Pertaining to muscle; involving the use of muscles; muscular.
    obsolete, relational

Equivalents

Latina musculosus

Examples

“[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 […].”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

museal museful museless muselike musematic museographic

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