n. Pl. musculi (-lī). In anatomy, a muscle.n. [capitalized] In zoology:n. A genus of mice, of which Mus musculus is the type: same as Mus.n. A term in use among the conchologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for various bivalve shells, as Panopæa, Unionidæ, Cyrenidæ. Mytilidæ, etc.n. A genus of brachiopods of the family Terebratulidæ.