"muscifuge" meaning in English

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          "text": "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."
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