Definition of Rufescent

1. a. Reddish; tinged with red.

Definition of Rufescent

1. Adjective. Reddish; tinged with red. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rufescent

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rufescent

rue family
rued
rueful
ruefully
ruefulness
ruefulnesses
rueing
rueings
ruelle
ruelles
ruellia
ruellias
ruer
ruers
rues
rufescent (current term)
ruffe
ruffed
ruffed grouse
ruffed grouses
ruffed lemur
ruffes
ruffian
ruffianage
ruffianed
ruffianish
ruffianism
ruffianisms
ruffianlike

Literary usage of Rufescent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"... or greenish-blue, elytra finely punctate- striate, apex of the abdomen rufescent. ... more or less rufescent at the base : thorax and scutellum black, ..."

2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"Colour uniform dusky or dusky slate, with the tips of the fur rufescent; fur long; large sebaceous anal glands ; smell very powerful. ..."

3. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1895)
"General plumage rufescent ; head and nape black with a greenish lustre, especially on the nape ; edges of the feathers on the sides of the head streaked ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"Much more rufescent; throat and sides of head darker; shafts of rectrices brown ... Exposed surface of secondaries decidedly less rufescent than tail. e. ..."

5. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"Compared with the latter they are much more rufescent above, and, because of this, somewhat darker. As in other races, there is a considerable range of ..."

6. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"Similar to summer adults but less rufescent above (the general color grayish brown streaked and striped with blackish, ..."

7. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"... a streak over and beyond the eye, and the whole under parts rufescent, brightest ou the flanks and thighs; lores and upper part of ear-coverts greyish; ..."

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