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Meaning of "fuscous" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FUSCOUS

From Latin fuscus dark, swarthy, tawny.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FUSCOUS

fuscous  [ˈfʌskəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FUSCOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fuscous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FUSCOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of fuscous in the English dictionary

The definition of fuscous in the dictionary is of a brownish-grey colour.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FUSCOUS


ascus
ˈæskəs
Damascus
dəˈmɑːskəs
discus
ˈdɪskəs
hibiscus
haɪˈbɪskəs
Holodiscus
ˌhɒləˈdɪskəs
lemniscus
lɛmˈnɪskəs
meniscus
mɪˈnɪskəs
molluscous
mɒˈlʌskəs
nonviscous
ˌnɒnˈvɪskəs
Puskas
ˈpʊskəs
ruscus
ˈrʌskəs
subfuscous
sʌbˈfʌskəs
trochiscus
trəʊˈkɪskəs
uraniscus
ˌjuːrənˈɪskəs
viscous
ˈvɪskəs
viscus
ˈvɪskəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FUSCOUS

fusain
fusarium
fusarole
fusc
fuse
fuse box
fuse wire
fused
fusee
fusel
fusel oil
fuselage
fuseless
Fuseli
fuselike
Fushih
fushion
fushionless
Fushun
fusibility

WORDS THAT END LIKE FUSCOUS

aduncous
autoicous
caducous
coccous
couscous
dioicous
glaucous
lubricous
malacostracous
mucous
muticous
ochroleucous
paroicous
posticous
raucous
submucous
synoicous
talcous
verrucous
zincous

Synonyms and antonyms of fuscous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fuscous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FUSCOUS

Find out the translation of fuscous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fuscous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fuscous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

深色
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fusco
570 millions of speakers

English

fuscous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

fuscous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أغبس؛ غبساء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

темноватый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fuscous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

করাল কৃষবর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

brunatre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fuscous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fuscous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

暗灰色の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

암갈색
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fuscous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

màu nâu đậm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

fuscous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्यूस्कस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fuscous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fuscous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fuscous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

темнуватий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fuscous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αμαυρό χρώμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fuscous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fuscous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fuscous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fuscous

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FUSCOUS»

The term «fuscous» is normally little used and occupies the 132.213 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FUSCOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fuscous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fuscous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fuscous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUSCOUS»

Discover the use of fuscous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fuscous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tropical Fruit Flies (Tephritidae Dacinae) of South-East ...
Frons – length 1.6 times breadth; redbrown with pale fuscous around bases of s. or. setae; orbital setae black: 1 s.or., 2 i.or.; lunule fuscous. Ocellar triangle black. Vertex red-brown. Face fulvous with a pair of mediumsized oval black spots; ...
R. A. I. Drew, Meredith C. Romig, 2013
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The wheat stem maggots of the genus Meromyza in the Pacific ...
The writers have a very few specimens that barely show fuscous spots on the tips of the palpi and some that show the vertical triangle (fig. i, Z>, v) faintly outlined with brown. Flies that emerge in July and August are often of a light-buff color ...
L. P. Rockwood, Sarah Ernestine Keen Zimmerman, T. R. Chamberlin, 1947
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The South Asiatic Olethreutini: (Lepidoptera Tortricidae).
Head pale fuscous, vertex more infuscated. Palpus pale fuscous, suffused with greyish along apical half of posterior edge and with a pair of grey dots on and below apex; terminal segment infuscated. Thorax pale ochreous-greyish, mixed with ...
Alexey Diakonoff, 1973
4
Sedge Moths of North America, The (Lepidoptera: ...
3, 62-63, 138-139, 208-209) This species is distinguished by the fuscous and amber forewings with several silvery spots or fascia and the two apical fascia of the hindwings. Male (Fig. 62).- 6.0-6.8 mm. forewing length. Head: fuscous with a  ...
Heppner, 1985
5
New Genus & Two New Species of Hispaniolan Pseudophyllinae ...
Overlying dark pattern ranging from cinnamon-brown to prout's brown or even blackish fuscous in certain areas. Face with whole center solidly and quadrately blackish fuscous, sharply defined, a narrow transverse area immediately ...
6
A Classification of North American Agallian Leaf Hoppers
1, B) Brown, with veins of elytra broadly bluish white and with black to fuscous markings on the head and thorax. Aspect of a large, pale ballii, but without reticulate venation. Length of male 3.75 mm. Color. — General ground color light brown, ...
Paul Oman, 1933
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Vegetable Diseases and Their Control
COMMON BUGHT AND FUSCOUS Bl.lGHT Common: Xanthomonas phaseoli lE. F. Smithl Dows Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli tE. F. Smithl Dye Fuscous: Xanthomonas phaseoli lSmithl Dowson var.fuscans lBurkl Starr and Burk.
Arden F. Sherf, 1986
8
Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland, M.A.
101. 10. Caprimulgus damarensis, Strickland. Size, small. Ground colour of crown and upper parts pale grey, minutely speckled with fuscous; each feather on the crown has a conspicuous medial black streak, broad on the front and occiput, ...
William Jardine, Hugh Edwin Strickland, 2011
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Manual of botany, for North America: containing generic and ...
On rocks and trunks of trees. oqmla, frond orbicular, fuscous, chesnutbrown, paler beneath, and dark- fibrous : division's many-parted, sub-linear, convex ; the periphery dilated, flattiah, crenate : receptacles dark-fuscous : margin crenulatc.
Amos Eaton, 1829
10
Illustrations of British Entomology, Or a Synopsis of ...
... however, aware has been used by Mr. Swainson, in his Zoological Illustrations, for a group of South American white butterflies, but, in my opinion, improperly. sprinkled with black dots, and the hinder margin nearly transparent and fuscous,  ...
James Francis Stephens, 1828

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUSCOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fuscous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Black-Tailed Antechinus: New Marsupial Discovered in Australia
... the Black-tailed Antechinus is “more vibrantly colored, with a marked change from grayish-brown head to orange-brown rump, fuscous black ... «Sci-News.com, Apr 14»
2
Inside a bright, bold Flagstaff home: 'It's all about breaking the rules'
... opted for a bold, monochromatic colour scheme, painting the walls either Resene Black, Quarter Black White, or Karen Walker Fuscous Grey. «Waikato Times, Jun 13»
3
RIP: Jack Vance, 96, sci-fi master craftsman
... of his own invention were interspersed with gloriously obscure usages like Calligynics, clevenger, cresset, squalm, insidiator, and fuscous. «89.3 KPCC, Jun 13»
4
Always Looking, by John Updike
... see it resolve, with the blotches of fuscous green that wander up the hillside, into a rectangle of perfect high summer in its elemental duotone. «Easy Reader, Jan 13»
5
Looks that cast a spell
A thin, long, fuscous mouth is a sign of ill-luck. Drooping lips are also deemed 'poor'," Hu says. The pursuit of the perfect look, however ... «China Daily, Jun 12»
6
Natives are restless as temperatures rise
Eucalypts, which provide nectar to species such as fuscous honeyeaters, failed to flower or produced dry flowers due to a lack of water, he said. «Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 09»
7
Tante Jolesch or The Decline of the West in Anecdotes
Meanwhile, expectedly, the ratio of that actual fuscous liquid to added milk should prove almost kabalistically arcane: “A perfectionist among ... «Forward, Jul 08»

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