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Definition of Infuscate
1. Verb. Darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings.
Definition of Infuscate
1. v. t. To darken; to make black; to obscure.
Definition of Infuscate
1. Verb. To darken; to make black or obscure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infuscate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infuscate
Literary usage of Infuscate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1897)
"... legs for the most part, and the central area of venter of abdomen resinous
infuscate ; bases of coxa; darker, and tarsi, especially posterior pair, ..."
2. Report of Meeting by ANZAAS, ANZAAS. (1903)
"... legs (claws infuscate) pale testaceous. Head flat, wide, punctures not very
sparse or small; clypeus minute; antenna; thin, second to tenth joints sub- ..."
3. Through Unknown African Countries: The First Expedition from Somaliland to by Arthur Donaldson Smith (1897)
"... the rest of the femur and the three distal segments strongly infuscate ; the
patella, however, rather paler and browner than the tibia and tarsus, ..."
4. A Synonymic Catalogue of Homoptera by William Lucas Distant (1906)
"Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xiv. p. 329 (1904). aa. Tegmina with the transverse
veins at bases of upper apical areas not or indistinctly infuscate. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1908)
"September 17 and October 9,1903; September 14, October 2, 5 and 7, 1904. 7 cT.
These specimens represent the pale typical and the slightly infuscate form. ..."
6. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1905)
"Palpi slightly infuscate externally, brush rather dense and not projecting beyond
joint, third joint flattened, as long as the second. ..."
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