fuscous

Historical Examples

• The wings are not shaded with fuscous toward the base as much as in A. zerene.

  The Butterfly Book

  William Jacob Holland

• Color dark brownish or fuscous in summer pelage; winter pelage unknown.

  Speciation of the Wandering Shrew

  James S. Findley

• The stipe is usually white above, fuscous below, at the apex almost evanescent; hence the cernuous sporangia.

  The North American Slime-Moulds

  Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

• The color is bright blue when young, becoming pale and whitish in age, with a tendency to fuscous on the center.

  Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.

  George Francis Atkinson

• It is of a pale yellowish color, becoming a dusky brown (fuscous) when bruised.

  Among the Mushrooms

  Ellen M. Dallas and Caroline A. Burgin