fuscous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of fuscous
1655–65; < Latin fusc ( us ) dark, tawny, dusky + -ous
Example Sentences
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The houses were built of the same brick as the walls, and they had deepened from yellow to the same fuscous hue.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
The plumage is very pale brown, marked with fuscous; the crown and wing-coverts rufous.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
P. campan. exp. gibbous, and with the glabrous hollow s. sooty and glutinous, orange after the gluten has gone; g. thick, livid then fuscous, edge orange. unguinosus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
The back and rump are white, the wings and other upper parts very dark fuscous, marked with white and pale brown.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
P. exp. depr. even, somewhat fuscous, but silkily hoary; g. broad, distant, greyish white; s. solid, short, outside and inside greyish-brown.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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