fuscous

American  

[fuhs-kuhs] / ˈfʌs kəs /

adjective

1. of brownish-gray or dusky color.

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fuscous British  

/ ˈfʌskəs /

adjective

1. of a brownish-grey colour

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Etymology

Origin of fuscous

1655–65; < Latin fusc ( us ) dark, tawny, dusky + -ous

Example Sentences

P. 1-1.5 cm. exp. disc depr. round pale small umbo, rufous or yellowish; g. crowded, white; s. 3-5 cm. slender, tough, glabrous, tinged fuscous, base rooting, fibrillose; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Head and throat as in ♂, back fuscous and buffy; breast and sides ochraceous thickly spotted with blackish; speculum ashy gray and white.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

P. convex, obtuse, tinged fuscous, covered with tomentose imbricated scales; g. white; s. solid, very long, ring distant. holosericea, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The name Riksha was applied to the bear in the sense of the bright fuscous animal, and in that sense it became most popular in the later Sanskrit, and in Greek and Latin.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew

P. campan. subumbil. dry, fibrous, fuscous olive; g. adnate, broad; s. greenish-yellow.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George