"muscifuge" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin musca (“fly”) + -fuge (“repellent”), compare medieval Latin muscifugium, a fly fan.",
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          "ref": "1882, anonymous, The Pharmacist and Chemist, Volumes 15-16, C.E. Southard, page 228",
          "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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          "ref": "1897, anonymous author, The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, volume 103, Fannin & Company, page 186:",
          "text": "A Muscifuge... the sweet odour emanated seems very offensive to the ordinary house fly.",
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        "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."
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        "(rare) 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."
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