fuscous
of brownish-gray or dusky color.
Origin of fuscous
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How to use fuscous in a sentence
The root-stock is very short, but creeping: it bears a few dark-fuscous scales, and is covered with the remains of decayed stalks.
Beautiful Ferns | Daniel Cady EatonHead and neck fuscous brown margined with white, rest of underparts fuscous brown; back with greenish reflections.
Color Key to North American Birds | Frank M. ChapmanPrimaries fuscous-black, the outer ones margined with white and the inner ones white at the base.
Descriptions of Three New Birds from the Belgian Congo | James ChapinUpper wing-coverts and secondaries fuscous-black (freshly molted feathers blacker) narrowly edged with olive-ocher.
Descriptions of Three New Birds from the Belgian Congo | James ChapinFemale in summer: Similar, but upperparts streaked all over with black, and the black wings largely replaced by fuscous.
The Birds of Washington (Volume 1 of 2) | William Leon Dawson
British Dictionary definitions for fuscous
/ (ˈfʌskəs) /
of a brownish-grey colour
Origin of fuscous
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