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Webster 1913 Edition


Muscardin

Mus′car-din

,
Noun.
[F., fr.
muscadin
a musk-scented lozenge, fr.
muscade
nutmeg, fr. L.
muscus
musk. See
Muscadel
.]
(Zool.)
The common European dormouse; – so named from its odor.
[Written also
muscadine
.]