“fuscous”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

fuscous

释义

fuscous, a.|ˈfʌskəs|
[f. L. fuscus dark, dusky + -ous.]
Of a dark or sombre hue; dusky, swarthy. (Chiefly Nat. Hist.)
1662Ray Itin. in Rem. (1760) 247 The 5 or 6 first Feathers of the Wing above of a dark or fuscous Colour, near Black.1671J. Webster Metallogr. xvi. 235 A fuscous or darkish redness.1756Burke Subl. & B. ii. xvi, Sad and fuscous colours, as black, or brown, or deep purple.1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 282 Fuscous, a dull brown.1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 210 Back fuscous brown, with four lines of white spots.1848J. Gould Birds Austral. Descr. pl. 44 Ptilotis fusca, Fuscous Honey-eater.1853De Quincey Wks. (1862) XIV. 390 The other sad, fuscous, begrimed with the snuff of ages.1870Hooker Stud. Flora 57 Seeds fuscous acutely tubercled.
fig.1855De Quincey Lett. 31 July in H. A. Page Life (1877) II. xviii. 106 Some confused remembrance I had that we were or ought to be in a relation of hostility, though why I could ground upon none but fuscous and cloudy reasons.

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