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单词 fuscous
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Definition of fuscous in English:

fuscous

adjective ˈfʌskəsˈfəskəs
technical, literary
  • Dark and sombre in colour.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If you prefer the modern, industrialised phalanx of grey and fuscous brown, then I refer you to Eamon McCann in the Belfast Telegraph.
    • A tin plate heaped with rice, dal, vegetables, and burning-hot, fuscous curry is set before me.
    • This species may be easily recognized by fuscous tips to tegmina and wings.
    • A pair of fulminating fingers stretched upward like cosmological Aztec temples; clutching at the fuscous firmament as hunger surpassed civility.
    • Nymphs of A. elliotti are mainly drab gray, which renders fuscous markings less contrasting.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin fuscus 'dusky' + -ous.

 
 

Definition of fuscous in US English:

fuscous

adjectiveˈfəskəsˈfəskəs
literary, technical
  • Dark and somber in color.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nymphs of A. elliotti are mainly drab gray, which renders fuscous markings less contrasting.
    • If you prefer the modern, industrialised phalanx of grey and fuscous brown, then I refer you to Eamon McCann in the Belfast Telegraph.
    • A tin plate heaped with rice, dal, vegetables, and burning-hot, fuscous curry is set before me.
    • This species may be easily recognized by fuscous tips to tegmina and wings.
    • A pair of fulminating fingers stretched upward like cosmological Aztec temples; clutching at the fuscous firmament as hunger surpassed civility.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin fuscus ‘dusky’ + -ous.

 
 
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