fuscous

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 Eaton

• Head and neck fuscous brown margined with white, rest of underparts fuscous brown; back with greenish reflections.

  Color Key to North American Birds | Frank M. Chapman

• Primaries 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 Chapin

• Upper 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 Chapin

• Female 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