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Definition of fuliginous in English: fuliginousadjective fjuːˈlɪdʒɪnəsfjuˈlɪdʒənəs literary Sooty; dusky. Example sentencesExamples - Neil Warmington's set, with its upstage floral aquarium and gleaming patch of AstroTurf, also evokes a world that is garishly strange without lapsing into the clichés of fuliginous futurism.
- I turned my head and could just see the flames licking the sky, and clouds of fuliginous, black smoke dissipating into the warm summer air.
- The colour of these larger hyphae, like those in the cortex, deepens with age to a fuliginous shade or to black, eventually causing the wood to appear cinereous to the naked eye.
- It was colored white, a stark contrast to the fuliginous coloring of its companion unit.
- They were as different as night and day, but both bore the obvious mark of their heritage, the girl in her doll-like features, the boy in his fuliginous hair and slanted eyes the color of sapphires.
Origin Late 16th century (originally describing a vapour as 'thick and noxious'): from late Latin fuliginosus, from fuligo, fuligin- 'soot'. Rhymes indigenous, oxygenous, polygynous, rubiginous, vertiginous Definition of fuliginous in US English: fuliginousadjectivefjuˈlɪdʒənəsfyo͞oˈlijənəs literary Sooty; dusky. Example sentencesExamples - Neil Warmington's set, with its upstage floral aquarium and gleaming patch of AstroTurf, also evokes a world that is garishly strange without lapsing into the clichés of fuliginous futurism.
- The colour of these larger hyphae, like those in the cortex, deepens with age to a fuliginous shade or to black, eventually causing the wood to appear cinereous to the naked eye.
- It was colored white, a stark contrast to the fuliginous coloring of its companion unit.
- They were as different as night and day, but both bore the obvious mark of their heritage, the girl in her doll-like features, the boy in his fuliginous hair and slanted eyes the color of sapphires.
- I turned my head and could just see the flames licking the sky, and clouds of fuliginous, black smoke dissipating into the warm summer air.
Origin Late 16th century (originally describing a vapor as ‘thick and noxious’): from late Latin fuliginosus, from fuligo, fuligin- ‘soot’. |