fuscous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of fuscous
1655–65; < Latin fusc ( us ) dark, tawny, dusky + -ous
Example Sentences
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Above fuscous with a faint greenish tinge; head and neck streaked, back spotted with whitish; below white; throat and breast distinctly streaked with dusky.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
P. campan. exp. subumb. slightly innato-fibrillose, livid fuscous, shining; g. broad, white; s. glabrous, white, base fibrilloso-strigose.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. conic then exp. umb. fuscous, fibrillosely scaly; g. white then greyish; s. fistulose, slender, floccose.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Similar to No. 54 but darker; tail nearly uniform fuscous.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
Color dark brownish or fuscous in summer pelage; winter pelage unknown.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.
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