Fuscous
Word | FUSCOUS |
Character | 7 |
Hyphenation | fus cous |
Pronunciations | /ˈfʌskəs/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Fuscous"
What do we mean by fuscous?
Dark brownish-gray in color. adjective
Brown; brown tinged with gray; of a dark, swarthy color.
Brown or grayish black; darkish. adjective
Of a dark brownish-gray color; dark or dusky adjective
Of something having a dusky brownish grey color adjective
Dark in color, dark-hued; dusky, swarthy.
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The word "fuscous" in example sentences
“Only the females have been examined” but I predict the males will show themselves to be fuscous. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Burke notes qualities such as unfinishedness or ruination, magnitude, difficulty or impossibility, and even "sad and fuscous colours" as symptomatic of the Sublime. ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)
Four endemic species of shrew are found only in these forests; the mountain shrew (Sylvisorex oriundus, VU), African foggy shrew (Crocidura caliginea, CR), Congo shrew (C. congobelgica, VU), and the fuscous shrew (C. polia, CR). ❋ Unknown (2007)
Head densely clothed with long whitish hairs; thorax and abdomen with black hairs; wings hyaline, the nervures and nervules brown, with a few black scales: base of the anterior and abdominal fold of the posterior more or less covered with black hairs; antennae and legs fuscous brown. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The sun, not yet obscured, was picking out its fuscous shape with dazzling light, and marking its front with grey stripes running right down to the horizon. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Halo Blight (Pseudomonas phaseoli-cola): This bacterial disease prefers cooler temperatures than common and fuscous blights. ❋ Unknown (1981)
Black; the head and thorax strongly punctured; the mandibles, clypeus, a line above extending to the anterior ocellus, the emargination of the eyes, a spot at their vertex and a line at their outer orbits, yellow; the antennæ reddish-yellow, with the scape pale yellow in front and a narrow fuscous line above; the yellow marking more or less stained orange. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thorax thinly covered with long yellow pubescence, which is most dense at the sides of the metathorax; the tibiæ, tarsi, and posterior femora ferruginous; the claw-joint of the tarsi black; the tibiæ and tarsi with black spines; the wings fulvo-hyaline, their apex with a narrow fuscous border, the nervures ferruginous. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thorax: the disk very closely punctured, the metathorax rugose; the sides and the legs with a fine glittering sericeous pile, the wings subhyaline, their apical margins fuscous, the nervures fuscous. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yellow; the antennæ fuscous above, also a fuscous cloud at the apex of the anterior wings, the wings hyaline with the nervures black; a spot on the scape within, and three longitudinal stripes on the mesothorax, black; the latter slightly punctured anteriorly; the metathorax smooth and shining, with three oblique carinæ on each side, and a small subovate enclosed space in the middle of the disk. ❋ Various (N/A)
Bright red; the anterior margin of the clypeus with a minute tooth in the centre; the tips of the mandibles fuscous. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thorax: the prothorax in front, the tegulæ and two spots beneath the wings, the scutellum, and sides of the metathorax yellow; the legs yellow, with ferruginous stains; the femora with a black or dark stain above; wings hyaline, with a fuscous stain along the anterior border of the superior pair. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thorax finely punctured on the disk of metathorax, which has three longitudinal broad black stripes, a narrow black line on the posterior margin of both the scutellum and postscutellum; wings hyaline, the nervures black, with a dark fuscous spot at the apex of the marginal cell. ❋ Various (N/A)
The flagellum fulvous beneath, the mandibles ferruginous at their apex; the tarsi ferruginous, wings hyaline, nervures fuscous, stigma testaceous. ❋ Various (N/A)
Head and thorax black; the anterior margin of the clypeus angular and narrowly rufo-testaceous; the mandibles, palpi, and antennæ ferruginous; the scape, and flagellum above, except the basal joint, fuscous; the outer orbits of the eyes with a narrow yellow line. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thorax: the metathorax densely clothed with silvery pubescence, beneath, at the sides, and also the legs with scattered silvery hairs, the calcaria white; the tegulæ shining; the wings subhyaline with the nervures dark fuscous. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thorax: the posterior margin of the prothorax, the tegulæ, scutellum, and a quadrate spot on each side of the metathorax at its base yellow; the legs ferruginous, with the coxæ, trachanters, and claw-joint of the tarsi black; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous, a fuscous spot at the apex of the anterior pair; the meso - and metathorax transversely striated, the latter with a yellow spot at the insertion of the petiole. ❋ Various (N/A)
Black; the thorax, anterior and intermediate legs, the articulations of the posterior pair, and the base of the abdomen ferruginous, entirely smooth and shining; the wings subhyaline, the nervures fusco-ferruginous, an irregular fuscous stain at the base of the first submarginal cell, extending beyond it. ❋ Various (N/A)
Ferruginous; the posterior tarsi and the fourth and following segments of the abdomen black; the head is reddish yellow, the eyes brown; the scape and two or three of the basal joints of the flagellum ferruginous, the rest fuscous; the basal half of the wings flavo-hyaline, the apical half fuscous; the stigma yellow, with a subhyaline macula beneath, and two other similar irregular-shaped spots. ❋ Various (N/A)
Abdomen: the base honey-yellow, the apical margin of the first segment, and the following segments entirely, pale fuscous; the club of the antennæ 2-jointed. ❋ Various (N/A)
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"Fuscous" Related Words
Words that are spelled similarly to fuscous:
fuscous, fuscus, fuscos.
Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word fuscous:
suffusion, stigmata, dorsum, suffused, obliquely, blotch, obscurely, costal, sinuate, blackish, cloudy, indistinct, nervure, anteriorly, lunule, cinereous, whitish, dots, fascia, elongate, obtusely, tinged, indistinctly, sprinkled, ferruginous, confluent, costa, oblique, apical, orbicular, faintly, undefined, apex, dentate, fulvous, transversely, reniform, cilia, purplish, quadrate, tinge, edged, transverse, paler, clouding, tuft, basal, dot, outwardly, ashy, speckled, inwardly, stigma, scales, fold, veins, streaked, darker, blotches, streak, striae, pale, faint, palpi, dilated, brassy, indented, leaden, diffused, speck, thinly, tutt, dusting, posterior, outwards, marginal, sprinkling, spots, shading, dorsal, beneath, attenuated, grey, inwards, minutely, patch, dark, shade, irregular, longitudinal, fore, curved, hyaline, yellowish, rufous, thorax, spot, larvae, silvery, mottled.
Words that rhyme with fuscous:
phthisis, viscus, pertussis, physis, byssus, cuscus, clysis, crispus, ruscus, tussis, blissus, kuskus, cissus, us us.
Adjectives that are often used to describe fuscous:
dark, joint, terminal, latter, golden, cilia, brownish, labial, fringe, darker, dull.
Nouns that are often described by the adjective fuscous:
brown, spots, spot, band, line, scales, markings, hair, streak, hairs, bands, stripe, dots, cloud, lines, shade, patch, streaks, color, shading, blotch, pubescence, stripes, basally, margin, fascia, border, animal, dot, suffusion, area, tinge, mark, points, veins, marks, gray, bars, blotches, rings, knobs, colour, scaling, nervures, borders, irroration, ring, grey, gleam, bar, annulations, colours, pigmentation, patches, wings, pattern, coloration, vitta, tuft, knob, base, dashes, fasciae, strigulae, yellow, pile, irrorations, buff, powdery, apex, punctures, arcs, margins, shadings, shades, hyphae, admixture, tips, threads, annuli, segment, femora, stigma, pubescent, legs, abdomen, clouds, vittae, degeneration, bronze, length, clouding, hue, crossband, granules, ant, joinings.
Consonant match to fuscous:
physis, phocis, face us.
Words that sound like fuscous:
fuscous, fuscus, fiscus, focus, fuschia, ficus, fusco, fusca, focis, fokus, phasis, phocus, phocis, fiscs, fosca, fossas, viscous, couscous, fucus, viscus, cuscus, khuskhus, physis, faces, faceless, festus, faustus, farkas, focas, fices, fauces, ruscus, fagus, fisco, fosco, phagous, fesco, fascias, fiscals, fusc, facias, foskey, flaccus, floccus, fusus, phocas, -phagous, fosses, foussa, fsas, kuskus, fucose, faeces, fusses, fasces, fesses, funchess, foskett, fisking, fescue, facts, discuss, fakes, fax, facetious, discus, feasts, facets, fawkes, faucets, factious, fascia, facce, fasts, facs, fazes, ephesus, fasa, ascus, faka, facies, falks, faca, faulks, feca, faks, fassa, faisa, factice, fastuous, discous, fazekas, faix, feargus, faccs, faex, fascam, fascinous, fcas, feateous.
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