fuscous

American  

[fuhs-kuhs] / ˈfʌs kəs /

adjective

1. of brownish-gray or dusky color.

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fuscous British  

/ ˈfʌskəs /

adjective

1. of a brownish-grey colour

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Etymology

Origin of fuscous

1655–65; < Latin fusc ( us ) dark, tawny, dusky + -ous

Example Sentences

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fuscous

P. convex, umbil. glabrous, not striate, rivuloso-rugulose when adult, fuscous; g. broad, pallid; s. even, base strigose, rooting.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

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

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman

P. 2 cm. conical then exp. papillate, shining, dark grey then pale; g. narrow, closely crowded, pure white then rosy; s. 4-5 cm. rigid, glabrous, naked, fuscous; sp. ——. var. versiformis, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 3-4 cm. viscid, even, edge becoming sulcate, yellow then pale, disc darker and subdepr.; g. subadnate, yellow then livid fuscous; s. 4-5 cm. narrowed upwards, yellowish, at first flocculose; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

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 Frank M. Chapman