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Definition of fuscous in English: fuscousadjective 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: fuscousadjectiveˈfəskəsˈfəskəs 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. |